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    Rep Report for June 28, 2024

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    Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek
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    Serial Pictures is extending its long-time partnership with Anonymous Content to include representation in the U.K. and Amsterdam. Somesuch previously represented the Serial roster in the U.K. market. Serial Pictures now represents directors such as Bradford Young, John Hillcoat, Daniel Askill, BRTHR, Alejandro Landes Echavarría, Fabien Baron, Paolo Sorrentino, Moses Sumney, and Scott Frank for commercials and music videos in the U.K and Amsterdam through its U.K. banner in partnership with Anonymous Content. “It is a natural progression for Serial Pictures to grow its brand to the U.K. and Amsterdam as we celebrate 16 years of partnership with Anonymous Content,” said Serial Pictures founder and executive producer Violaine Etienne. “I am thrilled to continue to expand our reach with a more significant market presence in territories known for their boundless creativity.” Tor Fitzwilliams, Anonymous Content U.K. managing director and EP, said, “Serial Pictures has a long history of representing world-class directors. We are excited to support them in their work with U.K. and Dutch agencies, brands and music videos”…

    International Data Group (IDG), a market intelligence and data company, has appointed Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek as chief marketing officer. Boockoff-Bajdek will join the IDG executive leadership team, reporting directly to IDG CEO Genevieve Juillard.  Boockoff-Bajdek joins IDG from Skillsoft, where she built and led a global marketing team responsible for driving brand awareness, customer preference, and company growth. Her extensive industry experience will help to position IDG at the forefront of enabling IT buyers and vendors to make critical technology decisions. As CMO, Boockoff-Bajdek will oversee the company’s global marketing strategy with a focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences and driving growth by leveraging the power of the IDC and Foundry brands. Prior to Skillsoft, Boockoff-Bajdek served as the CMO of IBM Watson and led global business marketing for The Weather Company, an IBM business….

    Vizrt, a provider of real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators, has added Timbre Broadcast Systems to its growing list of channel partners worldwide. Timbre is a broadcast sales and solutions company operating in Africa and will be offering Vizrt’s live production tech to content creators in the Sub-Saharan African region….

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    A New Mexico Judge Ordered New Child Safeguards For Meta. Advocates Hope Other Courts Follow

    Saturday, August 8, 2026

    In a landmark ruling against Meta, a New Mexico judge likened the company's social media platforms to factories. The psychological harm to children who use Facebook and Instagram, he said, can be seen as their pollution.

    Judge Bryan Biedscheid fined the company $567 million in his ruling Thursday, but he also prescribed steps to clean up what he described as its byproducts. He ordered new safety measures, including a time limit of 90 hours per month for users under 18, AI chatbot restrictions, and mandatory warnings on the platforms.

    How easily those features can be implemented, and how effective they could be at protecting young users from mental health harms, are unresolved questions. They also would apply only to children in New Mexico, Meta has no deadline to introduce them, and the company has said it will appeal the ruling.

    But the judge's order showed a possible path forward for other court fights around the country as Meta faces mounting legal, regulatory and public pressure to do more to protect young people.

    The ruling came in the second phase of a trial in a lawsuit the state of New Mexico filed against the social media giant. The new financial penalty is in addition to the $375 million in civil penalties that jurors ordered against Meta in March after determining the company knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

    Meta said in a statement Thursday that it works to keep people safe on its platforms and has been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content.

    "We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent... Read More

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