Social Media Cases Spark Free Speech Concerns: California Brief

Google, Meta Verdicts Fuel Speech Debate

An unlikely coalition of libertarian-leaning First Amendment advocates and left-wing civil rights groups are joining forces to decry a wave of Big Tobacco-style litigation that claims social media companies are targeting and addicting young users, Isaiah Poritz and Maia Spoto report.

A $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in Los Angeles and a $375 million verdict against Meta in New Mexico have reinvigorated an intense debate — frequently occurring on social media — about sound internet policy, First Amendment rights, and the tech industry’s legal shield known as Section ...