Stealing children's data is "routine and an open secret" at Instagram

Plus, surprise buyer for UK's Telegraph, Microsoft's AI masterstroke, Twitter/X helps publishers for a change, a Forbes buyout fails, and more

Welcome to Scotch and Watch Monday.

As Judge Amit Mehta considers his ruling on Google’s search monopoly, legal focus is now switching to the other Meta, and in particular, the behaviour of Insta boss Adam Mosseri.

Court documents have been unsealed that claim that Insta received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 and “disabled on…