Meta agrees to $18B multi-state settlement

A Thursday schedule highlights outdoor nature programming at the Coastal Trail with guided plant walks, aquatic investigations, loon studies, gratitude journaling, and an augmented-reality Indigenous map experience, all designed for public engagement. In sports discourse, a social media clip of a close racing finish prompts debate over whether jockeys should celebrate rival outcomes, noting the potential influence of qualification standings on behavior and public perception. A Meta settlement could total up to 18 billion dollars to address claims that Instagram and Facebook harmed teens, introducing safeguards such as daily time limits, curfews, hidden like counts, and independent auditing, with state-level adoption incentives included. In Ventura County, the East County Family Justice Center will be housed at California Lutheran University to consolidate victim-support services, alongside a previously opened center and a separate case of a chiropractor sentenced for sexual battery involving patients. On a literary note, Osage-American writer William Least Heat-Moon turns 87, celebrated for Blue Highways and River-Horse, works that critique modern progress while celebrating human-environment connections and road-tripping exploration.