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Lauren Feiner

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457 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

It's not really even much of a decision by the platforms, but what a company chooses to program their algorithm to recommend or not recommend, those are kind of their deliberate choices.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

We've already had a Supreme Court decision saying that content moderation is basically editorial discretion.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

So I think that's where it gets really tricky.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And I think you're right.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

That is kind of exactly the sort of thing that people who are advocating for these changes want to see changed, but it's probably the trickiest one to do.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

I think we're going to see a lot of discussion in Congress about whether to pass these new laws to repeal Section 230.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

But I think where we've seen most of the action has been in the states.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

I think we'll probably continue to see that move forward.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

I think in the courts, we'll see these cases be appealed.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And at the same time, we're going to see new cases brought.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

There's still

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

You know, in the L.A.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

case, there's, I think, over 1,500 cases behind that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

There's several more bellwether trials just in that set of cases that are already scheduled.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

The next one, I think, is going to be in a few months.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And then there's a totally different set of bellwether trials in a federal version of these cases with the first one kicking off in June.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And that's, you know, a school district and there's school districts, state AGs, individual plaintiffs.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

So this is really not going to slow down at all.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

And I think if nothing else, what these trials have done is just brought to light a lot of this information about how these companies work.