Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

social media and the ups and downs of two social media giants.

We have news about both Facebook and Twitter.

We'll start with Facebook.

If you were a Facebook user in the United States, I'm pretty sure it's just limited to the US, between, I want

to say, May 24th, 2007 and December 22nd, 2022, Facebook might owe you money.

There were some privacy claims and dealing with how data was shared and stuff like that.

Facebook has not admitted wrongdoing, but they do appear to have agreed to create a fund with like $725 million in it.

And users can file a claim to get their portion.

That claim has to be filed by August 25th,

2023, and you can do that at Facebook user privacy settlement.com.

I don't know how much the payments will be.

Realistically, most times when a settlement like this occurs,

yeah, the fund is $725 million, but that money also goes towards covering the cost of administration of the fund, it goes to basically everything.

And obviously it will depend on how many people make the claim.

So if you are in that group of people, you want to find out if you're part of this settlement or have a claim to this settlement that's where you go

looks like a pretty simple form. Okay so moving on.

Twitter, a few days ago, Twitter decided to pull the verification marks from everybody, the little

blue checks, because now rather than that being

a symbol of you having been verified and being noteworthy,

whatever, it's now part of Twitter Blue.

So they yanked the Blue Checks

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