Social Media on Trial

社交媒体审判

The Daily

2026-01-29

21 分钟
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For years, social media companies have relied on an impenetrable first amendment protection to shield them from legal claims that their products are dangerous to children. But now, a cluster of plaintiffs are trying a different tact. Cecilia Kang, who covers technology, explains why these new lawsuits pose an existential threat to social media giants, and how those companies are likely to defend themselves. Guest: Cecilia Kang, a reporter covering technology and regulatory policy for The New York Times. Background reading:  Here’s what to know about the social media addiction trials.TikTok reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit, avoiding the first in a series of landmark trials.Photo: David Gray/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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  • For years,

  • social media companies have relied on an impenetrable First Amendment protection to shield them from legal claims that their products are dangerous to children.

  • But now a new cluster of plaintiffs are trying a different tact.

  • Today,

  • my colleague Cecilia Kang explains why these lawsuits pose an existential threat to social media giants and how those companies are likely to defend themselves.

  • It's Thursday, january 29th.

  • Trouble for TikTok as a group of attorney generals in several states look into whether the video sharing platform TikTok is harmful for children,

  • internal research at Facebook found that its photo sharing app Instagram.

  • Can harm the mental health of millions of young users.

  • Research shows 95% of teens are on social media.