🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Social Media The algorithm is becoming regulated infrastructure. California just signed one of America’s most aggressive packages of youth technology laws. For users under 16, the rules target the mechanics of engagement themselves. Infinite scroll. Autoplay. Behaviorally addictive feeds. The state is no longer only asking what platforms show young people. It is asking how the product is engineered to keep them watching. Europe is moving in the same direction. Portugal’s digital rights group D3 has sued Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube over allegedly addictive design including infinite scrolling, autoplay, persistent notifications, and hyper personalized recommendations. Then comes the creator signal. Today is the expected final payout from X’s old Creator Revenue Sharing system. Its replacement now explicitly rewards original reporting, analysis, commentary, imagery, video, and firsthand expertise. Copied and lightly recycled material do...