🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Social Media Social media is entering its liability era. A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a teen mental health fund after ruling that Facebook and Instagram harmed children’s wellbeing. The court also ordered platform changes, including screen time limits, notification restrictions, stronger moderation, AI chatbot safeguards, and compliance reporting. (Reuters) This is bigger than one company. The legal system is starting to treat platform design itself as harm. Not just bad content. Not just bad users. The machinery of the feed. At the same time, Meta, Google, and TikTok failed to block key parts of California’s law restricting addictive feeds for minors. A federal judge rejected the idea that personalized feeds for children automatically qualify as protected speech. (Courthouse News) That is the shift. The feed is no longer invisible infrastructure. It is becoming evidence. Then comes the AI problem. Influencers are now w...