Meta and Google’s Addiction Verdict Turns the Social Media Tide
It’s too early to say whether these cases are, in Lanier’s words outside court, “a referendum — from a jury to an entire industry — that accountability has arrived.” But if we can’t yet say it has arrived, it is certainly banging hard on the door. For the first time, these cases have leveled the playing field, one that the lobbyists who have scuttled hopes of effective policymaking could not tilt.
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