In a span of less than 24 hours, juries have returned historic verdicts in a pair of high-profile lawsuits that accuse big tech companies including Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube of putting children and teens in harm's way on their social media platforms. John Yang discussed more with Jacob Ward of The Rip Current.
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Media literacy: According to Jacob Ward, why is it significant that the Court ruled it was the design of the platform such as features like the "Like" button not the content people post or algorithms?
"...the big thing here, John, right, is that they have been protected behind both the First Amendment and something called Section 230, which is a big blanket immunity for social media companies, makes them not liable for the crazy stuff that you and I might post there.
That has been the core of the defense, the big legal wall built around them forever. Suddenly, these two cases, which step around those issues, and get into the question of design and behavior modification by design, suddenly, we're in a very new landscape that I think these companies are going to have a very difficult time arguing against."
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