Meta’s $1.4T Trial Over Child Safety Begins & Is AI Buying and Destroying Used Books?

#913: Meta heads to a landmark trial that will determine if it’s responsible for kids’ social media addiction. Secondhand books are being bought in bulk and shipped to far-flung places…leaving many to believe AI is doing all the shopping. Reddit shares jump as it prepares to join the S&P 500. There’s a cohort of Gen Z entrepreneurs who are turning to vape vending machines to secure their financial future. Finally, actor Hayden Panettiere dies at 36.