Delighted to join Josh Lipton on Yahoo Finance to discuss the landmark social media addiction trial involving Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.

This case marks an important shift in how courts evaluate technology platforms. The legal focus is no longer limited to harmful user content. Instead, plaintiffs are challenging the platform architecture itself, including algorithmic recommendations, infinite scroll, and engagement-optimization features designed to shape user behavior.

The central legal question is straightforward but consequential: Are social media platforms merely passive communication tools, or engineered products whose design choices carry foreseeable risks and legal responsibility?

The answer will shape not only the outcome of this case but the future of platform governance, technology liability, and innovation policy more broadly.

Thank you to Hayley Marks for the opportunity to contribute to this important public conversation. Penn State Dickinson Law