Meta faces trial from 29 US states; natural diamonds try again with a “trust mark”; plus eight more — BPJ News (Evening Edition)
Ads, trust, capex, and outage response are moving at once. Print is being chosen less for “ink on paper” and more for how well you can design—and run—the operation around it.
In the US, Meta is in federal court after 29 state attorneys general sued over what they call “designs that get kids hooked,” putting ad and product design itself under legal scrutiny. In Europe and India, packaging investment is flowing not only to presses but to postpress and plate-making. At home, migration outages, refund scams, and preference-data leaks are raising the value of “notification and operations” work at the boundary between promotion and IT.
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Digital advertising is entering a phase where the question is no longer how cleverly you optimize delivery, but who bears responsibility for the design itself. At the same time, for high-ticket goods, making authenticity visible is becoming a precondition for purchase—and in packaging, capital is shifting away from the press alone toward postpress, prepress, and day-to-day operations. Add OS policy shifts, post-migration outages, refund-seeking fraud, and leaks of prefer…
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