PLUS: Flock has a powerful new AI tool for police.
■ In this week's Backchannel: Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
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‘Meta has used these features to draw kids onto the apps, and to keep them coming back’
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Hi, Backchannel friends, Lauren here. This week’s newsletter is a dispatch from federal court, where Meta is being put through yet another trial. This one’s expected to last six weeks, and like a lot of court cases it’ll be chock-full of legalese, star witnesses, and tedious proceedings, but here's why this trial is actually a high-stakes one for Meta.
Separately: I’ve been head-down working on a big feature for WIRED, due out this fall, and I can’t wait to share it with you. But for now …
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