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07.08.26 - 17:00
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Meta Ordered To Pay $567 Million In New Mexico For Children′s Mental Health Fund (ZeroHedge)
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Meta Ordered To Pay $567 Million In New Mexico For Children's Mental Health Fund
A New Mexico state judge on Aug. 6 ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund dedicated to remedying the harm caused to children's mental health by the company's social media platforms.
Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
State judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a 68-page order that most of the total youth mental health fund, or $420 million, would go toward treatment services for children harmed by social media.
The remainder of the fund would be directed toward awareness and prevention, screening and assessment, referrals and coordination, and implementation, according to the order.
“The Court finds that the weight of the evidence presented demonstrates that Meta's platforms are a cause of and substantial contributing factor to the youth mental health crisis in New Mexico,” the judge wrote.
Furthermore, as Aldgra Fredly reports for The Epoch Times, in his ruling, Biedscheid ord...
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07.08.26 - 08:24
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children′s mental health (The Guardian)
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Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against usersA New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant's platforms.The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine. Continue reading......
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07.08.26 - 04:42
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Mexico Bans Fracking In Key Shale Basin (ZeroHedge)
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Mexico Bans Fracking In Key Shale Basin
By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com
Mexico has ruled out fracking in a key shale basin, drawing a line through a resource-rich area even as the country looks for ways to cut its dependence on U.S. natural gas.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said hydraulic fracturing will not be allowed in the Tampico-Misantla basin beneath Veracruz and Tamaulipas. The government cited the basin's dense population, indigenous communities and freshwater reserves.
Sheinbaum ordered a panel to examine whether unconventional gas could help reduce imports from the United States. Mexico buys more than 6.5 billion cubic feet per day of pipeline gas from its northern neighbor, covering roughly 75% of domestic demand.
The commission recommended boosting conventional gas production first. Even with the proposed measures, Mexico's reliance on U.S. supply would fall only to about 50%, according to Sheinbaum.
Mexico would need unconventional gas to push that figure lower. The panel said...
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06.08.26 - 20:39
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New Mexico Sues DOJ For Unredacted Epstein Files (ZeroHedge)
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New Mexico Sues DOJ For Unredacted Epstein Files
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
New Mexico is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over unredacted Epstein files, accusing the federal agency of stonewalling the state's own investigation into alleged crimes at deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch.
The legal action, filed Aug. 5, intensifies a politically charged fight over the DOJ's Epstein files, which have been accumulating since investigations into Epstein began in the mid-2000s.
New Mexico reopened its investigation in February and is seeking access to files relating to who worked at and visited Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and may have participated in or witnessed crimes.
The DOJ said it has handed over some of the files but is prevented by law from releasing others due to privacy protections.
“The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not require, and the protective orders in place in the Southern District of New York do not perm...
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