The lawyer who took on Meta – and won – podcast

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced Meta and Google in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. Lanier, however, was determined to prove the companies had not just stumbled into a youth mental health crisis, but had helped to engineer it Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans. He was there to do something he’d never done before – take the stand in front of a jury in a landmark civil case that sought to prove that Instagram and YouTube are addictive by design. Je

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