Rachel Abrams

What are some of the other litigation that you're watching?

Given that these are all personal injury claims, what do the plaintiffs actually need to prove in order to prevail in court?

So what's the best evidence that the plaintiffs have to show what you're describing as a causal link between the technology and the harm?

In 2018, Meta began studying how beauty filters on Instagram... Beauty filters, just to be clear, those are the filter you can put on your face or somebody else's face to make them more beautiful, to just alter the image, right?

And what are the plaintiffs asking for specifically?

Obviously money, but can you just give us a little bit more specifics on their demands?

I'm really going to show my age here, Cecilia, but what is a snap streak?

I see.

And that does seem very clearly like an example of a tool that is designed to keep you on the platform as much as possible, which is part of the business model, right?

That's what these companies are trying to do with their users.

So it makes sense that if you take those features away, that could pose, as you said, kind of an existential threat to the entire business model.

Cecilia, if these lawsuits are so existential, potentially, for some of these social media companies, why would some of them not settle the way that TikTok and Snap did with that first case?

Presumably, the money that they would have to pay to settle is nothing compared with having to alter an entire business model, right?

So why even take the risk and go to trial?

Right.

And the causal link does, in fairness, feel like something worth grappling with.

Right.

Because how do you distinguish the impact, for example, of social media from a culture that promotes certain beauty standards and certain body types?

Right.

Like, is it actually possible to isolate and prove causation back to a specific social media platform?