Sarah Smith
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first heard Jan 2026
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Americast · How will Trump’s former personal lawyer run the US justice department? · 21 Aug 2026
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So Mariana, perfect timing, not least because the politics in the US has gone a bit slow, Congress is on holiday, it's you know it's it's August, there's not so much happening.
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So dominating the headlines here is this court case in California against Meta.
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And I'll be honest, I don't understand all the ins and outs of this.
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What I do know is that this is a huge case in which Meta is being accused of
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Damaging young people essentially with the way it operates.
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And would it force them to stop operating in this way?
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Would we actually see a very, very different kind of social media where it it it is less addictive, you're not endlessly, infinitely scrolling and that kind of thing?
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Now, I've read interviews and books from former employees alleging not only that this stuff was designed to to to keep people addicted to it, but that the companies knew that.
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Does that intent matter at all in this case?
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Yeah, and that's a fascinating comparison, not just because of the enormous consequence that some of the legal cases had for the tobacco industry.
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But how late it came, it's really surprising to realise that it was in the nineteen nineties that big tobacco firms finally lost some of these cases.
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People knew
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for decades the harm that tobacco could do, but they couldn't quite pin down the link between smoking and lung cancer and the way the companies were operating.
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And that took such a long time.
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And it it feels as though there may be something similar here that you said at the beginning, you know, it's a no brainer that um
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the way that these um platforms are designed suck people in and end up um becoming addictive.
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But y it's actually
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Pinning it down in a court of law and forcing change through the legal system can take a a lot longer um than common sense does to work out what's going on.
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And I think that's one of the ways in which this is quite analogous to big tobacco as well as what the consequences could be for the industry.
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it up there and just say bye bye.
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