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Demonstrators participate in a nationwide protest against data centers, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on July 18.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2026
Voters in U.S. reset the debate on data centers and billionaires
Building data centers in the U.S. just became more difficult, but perhaps as important, voters issued a challenge to the AI billionaires behind them.
As the European Union considers how to protect and empower young people in a digital world, it must resist the impulse to rely solely on a social?media ban for minors.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2026
Social-media age bans won’t make children safer — but this will
A more effective strategy to protect young people would force tech firms to remove addictive features by holding them to product-liability standards—as with most other industries.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in September 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2026
Don’t buy Zuckerberg’s ‘good guy of AI’ act
Zuckerberg’s essay announces the creation of a new $1 billion Future Is for Everyone Fund, but concrete details are scant, and the move is seen as a charm offensive.
Meta Platforms' headquarters in Mountain View, California
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2026
Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
Meta’s up to $18 billion settlement with nearly all U.S. states over social media harm to teenagers has opened a new front in a global government fight to protect children.
Olivia Konar, joined by other demonstrators, holds a banner with the names of young people who allegedly died due to the impacts of social media, during a protest outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & US Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Meta says it’ll pay up to $18 billion in social media claims
Key parts of the deal require Meta Platforms to put new guardrails on its platforms, including restricting how much time youths can scroll.
Former Meta employee Arturo Béjar, who has emerged as a go-to whistleblower witness for states and personal injury attorneys suing Meta and other social media platforms.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 20, 2026
Ex-Meta staffer says daughter, 14, was prey on Instagram
Meta has denied wrongdoing, saying it has continuously improved tools to protect kids and calling the states’ proposed penalties “outlandish.”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify in a tech addiction trial in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Meta is again defending itself in court over claims it caused young people to become addicted to social media, this time in the first bellwether federal trial, brought by states seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2026
Meta hooked children and misled public: prosecutors
A coalition of states is asking Meta be hit with $200 billion in penalties for making products addictive to children, in what many have called social media’s “big tobacco moment.”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Meta stares down trillion-dollar threat as landmark social media trial begins
The attorneys general of 29 states are seeking not only massive financial penalties, but also court orders that could force Meta to change how it operates its platforms.
The United States’ Take It Down Act criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual sexual content and forces social media and website operators to remove such posts.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 27, 2026
Instagram and Facebook ran AI ‘nudify’ ads from China, report says
Meta’s rules prohibit sexually suggestive ads or those for apps that purport to strip the persons depicted.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Friday
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 15, 2026
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
The lawsuit ?says that the company relied on factors such as productivity and AI token usage when it slashed thousands of jobs earlier this year.
Meta’s largest data center outside the U.S., to be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, will create 300 full-time jobs, the tech giant says.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 9, 2026
Meta to build first data center in Canada in expansion of global fleet
The Sturgeon County, Alberta-based data center will be Meta’s largest outside the U.S.
The logo of social media company Meta. As the tech behemoth spends billions annually to build out its artificial intelligence capabilities, employees at Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are increasingly unhappy with their Mark Zuckerberg-led parent company.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 2, 2026
Fear and anger brew inside Meta amid AI frenzy
After weathering layoffs, some Meta employees were reassigned to an internal artificial intelligence training initiative that has drawn accusations of surveillance.
Under Mark Zuckerberg, Meta plans to use employee computer activity data to train AI systems while investing heavily in automation that could replace human workers.
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2026
Meta is making workers train their AI replacements
Meta plans to put tracking software on its employees’ computers to track their mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes.
Through much of 2025, a U.S. special agent had been looking into claims that some Meta employees and contractors could see the content of encrypted WhatsApp messages. The investigation was just abruptly closed.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 29, 2026
U.S. ends investigation into claims WhatsApp chats aren’t private
The abrupt closure ends a law enforcement inquiry into claims that challenge how the company markets the chat service’s privacy.
A logo of Meta AI outside Meta House on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 22, 2026
Meta to capture U.S. employee mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI
The new tracking software will run on work-related apps and websites and will also take occasional snapshots of the content on employees’ screens, according to an internal memo.
Mark Zuckerberg exits the Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2026
Meta’s $280 billion tailspin sparks ‘tobacco moment’ questions
Wall Street is grappling with the possibility that social media companies could face a similar risk to the shrinking of the tobacco industry following stronger regulations.
Supporters of plaintiff Kaley G.M. hold signs as they stand outside the courthouse on the day the plaintiff is to take the stand at a trial accusing Meta's Instagram and Alphabet's YouTube of harming children's mental health, in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 26, 2026
Social media addiction trial takes new turn with therapist’s testimony
The case is part of a broader global backlash against social media companies over alleged harms to children and teens, though the tech firms deny the allegations.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, arrives to testify in a tech addiction trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 19, 2026
Zuckerberg says ‘difficult’ to enforce Instagram age limits
The CEO of Meta Platforms was sharply questioned on the witness stand Wednesday about the company’s efforts to attract and engage teenage users.
A 16-year-old uses his phone in Madrid on Feb. 3. An order by Spain for prosecutors to investigate social media platforms X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material comes amid a wider crackdown on online platforms, with regulators accusing them of practices ranging from anti-competitive behavior in digital advertising to ?deliberate design ?of addictive features.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 18, 2026
Spain to investigate X, Meta and TikTok over AI child sexual abuse material
The move comes amid a wider crackdown, with regulators accusing platforms of practices ranging from anti-competitive behavior in advertising to use ?of addictive features.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri (center) leaves the LA County Superior Court after testifying in a social media trial in Los Angeles, California, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 12, 2026
Instagram chief defends youth mental health decisions at trial
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified in Los Angeles as part of a trial on what plaintiffs ?call “social media addiction” ?in children and young adults.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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