The Supreme Court rejected Meta Platforms’ attempt to block a lawsuit from Vermont’s attorney general accusing the company of designing the social media app Instagram to be addictive for young users. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, a Democrat, sued Meta in 2023, alleging violations of the state’s consumer protection laws. Meta sought to have the...

This summer, Big Tech titans will be put in the hot seat on Capitol Hill. On Friday, Axios reported that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has invited the CEOs of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, and Snap for a June oversight hearing. The CEOs in question are Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, TikTok’s Shou...

The tech firm Anthropic asserts it wants to prevent political bias on its AI platform Claude, but significant funding from left-leaning organizations has gone to three groups providing feedback on the election project. One of the groups is a center-right think tank funded by some left-leaning donors, while another partner in Anthropic’s “election safeguard” program...

You can buy all kinds of things on Amazon, from sex toys to “Mein Kampf.” Yet last week, Amazon decided that Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel, “The Camp of Saints,” was beyond the pale of respectability. Vauban Books, a small independent publishing house, had been selling a new translation of the book for months. Sales had...