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🌱 Patch AM: What’s at stake for Menlo Park-based Meta in this youth harms trial?

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Morning Menlo Park! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What's at stake for Menlo Park-based Meta in this youth harms trial?
  • How could a federal trial reshape Menlo Park-based Meta's apps for kids?

Also on today's calendar: Couch to 5K and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Clouds giving way to sun, with a high of 75 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Saturday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, temps: high: 79, low: 57.
  • Sunday: Partly sunny and nice, with a high of 77 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Jury selection begins in Meta youth harms trial in California federal court (wtrf.com) — Menlo Park-based Meta is heading into jury selection in a major Oakland federal trial over whether Facebook and Instagram harm youth mental health and illegally track children. Twenty-nine states want big penalties and safety changes, while Meta insists it's already invested heavily in protections and is appealing a separate multimillion-dollar New Mexico judgment.
   

• Mark Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies at trial (valawyersweekly.com) — Meta, the Menlo Park-based parent of Facebook and Instagram, is on trial in Oakland over claims from 29 states that it put growth ahead of children's safety and misused kids' data. A former engineering director testified that major safety changes only happened when ordered by Mark Zuckerberg, as states seek penalties and platform changes affecting young users nationwide.
   

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Other local events
    Monday August 24
  • Back to School Night - TK and Kinder
    Walter Hays Elementary MP Room
    5:15 pm
  • Tuesday August 25
  • LEGO Tuesdays!
    Downtown Branch Library 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
    4:00 pm
  • Paly Choirs Adv. Vocals Auditions (New & Callbacks)
    Palo Alto High Palo Alto, CA 94301
    4:10 pm
  • Back to School Night
    Addison Elementary School, 650 Addison Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301
    5:15 pm
  • Wednesday August 26
  • Couch to 5K →
    800 Middle Ave, Menlo Park
    8:30 am
  • Thursday August 27
  • Paly Pep Band - Home Game
    Palo Alto High Palo Alto, CA 94301
    6:00 pm
  • Friday August 28
  • Diaper Drive →
    SAN CARLOS ROTARY CLUB
    9:00 am
  • External Event: Flamingo Chick Storytime
    Downtown Branch Library 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
    2:00 pm
  • Wednesday September 2
  • PVI Luau →
    800 Middle Ave, Menlo Park
    4:00 pm
  • Wednesday September 16
  • Silas Herman & The Tone Unit supporting The... →
    The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
    6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday August 21
  • Community Zoom
    Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle Palo Alto, CA 94306
    8:45 am
  • Bilingual Storytime / Hora de Cuentos Bilingüe
    East Palo Alto Library 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
    10:30 am
  • Learn English: Talking About the News Conversation Group
    Mitchell Park Library 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
    12:00 pm
  • Make It With Superspace
    Woodside Library 3140 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 94062
    3:00 pm

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Atherton

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Redwood City

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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