Meta’s court losses could be just the beginning

On The Vergecast: Apple at 50, how users feel about social media, and router bans.

Social media companies have long seemed impervious to legal threats.

Meta, YouTube, Snap, and the rest have long waved off criticism of their platforms on free speech and Section 230 grounds.

But twice this week , juries rendered verdicts against the platforms , not because of some bad videos but because of the design and structure of the platforms themselves.

That might change some things.

On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay dig into this week’s rulings, the novel legal approaches that led to them, and whether these cases (and the others set for trial this year ) could actually change the way social media works.

We also try to figure out whether this is a great day for regulating important platforms, as some people think, or a total disaster and an assault on free speech, as others think.

Maybe it’s somewhere in between.

Maybe it’s both.

After all that, and after the social media legal breakdown, it’s time for another round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, because he’s apparently banning routers now , sort of?

Also: the chatbot everything app wars are heating up, and things got messy in the Grammarly Expert Review debacle.

If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started:
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