Friday, September 18, 2026

Little Timmy said, “My lawyer wanted me to see this, but I was blocked.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/californias-addictive-feeds-law-violates-teens-first-amendment-rights

California’s “Addictive Feeds” Law Violates Teens’ First Amendment Rights

A California law that prohibits teens from receiving recommended social media content from other social media users violates their First Amendment rights, EFF argued this week.

The case, Meta v. Bonta, challenges SB 976, which requires that teen social media users get their parents’ permission before seeing other users’ recommended speech on their social media feeds. The legal challenge to SB 976 has largely centered on how the law violates social media services’ First Amendment rights to curate user-generated content and present it as they see fit.

But the friend-of-of the-court brief EFF filed along with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Wikimedia Foundation shows that the law violates teen users’ First Amendment rights, too.

SB 976 frustrates young people’s ability to use the internet to its full potential, prohibiting them from relying on tools that disseminate their speech and help them view and interact with other users’ speech,” the brief argues.





Oh my.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/german-court-rules-meta-liable-fake-ads-instagram-facebook-2026-09-17/

German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook

A German court has ruled that Meta, opens new tab is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties on its Instagram and Facebook platforms, and ordered the ‌U.S. tech giant to remove such content and pay damages, the court said on Thursday.

The lawsuit was brought by the operator of a German financial portal and its founder, whose trademarked logo and image were used without consent in posts recommending investments allegedly with fraudulent intent.





Replacing lawyers…

https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-astra-for-law-gpt-6-legal-search-index

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

… OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on 17 September. It is GPT-6 Astra, the company’s most powerful model, configured with legal search, instructions for legal analysis and writing, and controls aimed at law firms. Selected firms get it first through a Trusted Access programme in ChatGPT and Codex. The API follows later, as gpt-6-astra-law.





Tools & Techniques. Impressive.

https://www.bespacific.com/us-gov-graph/

US Gov Graph

We cannot govern systems we don’t understand, so we built a complete data model of the United States federal government – entities, positions, people, and the legal relationships between them. Built by CivLab for you.

Introducing the US Gov Graph – a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government. To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People. We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI.  Self-governing civilization is counting on you.”



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