Alphabet Insists YouTube Is Entertainment

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Berin Szóka

@berinszoka.bsky.social

“‘having lawyers get up and give speech contests in front of a jury’ is one of the worst ways he can imagine of settling the scientific disputes about social media and its effects on mental health.” — @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

The first in a wave of legal cases alleging that social media is dangerously addictive is now on trial.

www.theatlantic.com

February 11, 2026 at 2:14 PM

by Timothy D. McBride

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children

www.nytimes.com

February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

US lawsuit and EU: Do social media manipulate children's brains?

Alphabet and Meta face allegations that YouTube, Facebook and Instagram are making children addicted. That is precisely what the EU accuses the Chinese platform TikTok of. The companies say it's nonsense. Is it?

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by Jonathan Haidt

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by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

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by James Goodwin

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James Goodwin

@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

Carnac is grossly underused on this social media platform in my opinion

February 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM

by Alberto Acerbi

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Alberto Acerbi

@acerbialberto.com

An interview with RAI Trentino - “Young people and social media, Acerbi: ‘A ban is not the best approach.’”
www.rainews.it/tgr/trento/v...

February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM

New York Times

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

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The Guardian

Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products

Teenagers routinely see content promoting weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening creams, research finds Children are being “bombarded” with harmful products online, including weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening chemicals, a study has found. Research conducted for the children’s commissioner for England found that teenagers were routinely exposed to harmful products on social media, video games and apps. Continue reading. . .

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by Lilian Edwards

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🎓 Lilian Edwards	6%	24	8.8%

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Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

Quote by me on the EU Comm finding TikToks addictive design illegal under DSA. What @stokel.bsky.social didn't use was my musings that TikTok might prefer to cave than fight on this, even apply it globally beyond EU to divert he pressure for total under 16 social media bans heating up..?

February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM

by James Grimmelmann

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James Grimmelmann

@jtlg.bsky.social

I'm quoted.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

The first in a wave of legal cases alleging that social media is dangerously addictive is now on trial.

www.theatlantic.com

February 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM

by James Grimmelmann

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James Grimmelmann

@jtlg.bsky.social

I'm quoted.

news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-...

Meta Fights ‘Wild’ Porn Copyright Suit With Personal-Use Defense

Meta Platforms Inc.‘s defense against an adult-film company’s lawsuit accusing it of training AI models on its copyrighted movies diverges from most similar other cases in one key respect: Meta says i...

news.bloomberglaw.com

February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM

Reposted by Jonathan Haidt

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by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

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🎓 Jeremy Harris Lipschultz	18%	14	20.2%

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Sasquatch

@nerdysasquatch.bsky.social

If these MFers actually wanted to "protect kids", they would:

Pass gun control
Stop demonizing vaccines
Fund education and healthcare
Punish every single creep in the Epstein files

Censoring the internet does nothing to actually help kids. It only makes them ignorant.

February 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM

by Juliet Lodge

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Juliet Lodge

@julietl.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake

Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

www.wired.com

February 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM

Reposted by Jonathan Haidt

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🎓 Jonathan Haidt	10%	91	9.5%

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Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products

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