Episode

Meta & YouTube’s Tobacco Moment: The Landmark Addiction Lawsuits

Podcast: The Silicon Insider
Published: Mar 27, 2026
Duration seconds: 1090
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Summary

Is this the "tobacco moment" for social media? Mike Malone and Scott Budman break down the multimillion-dollar verdicts against Meta and YouTube over platform addiction. We dive into the legal shift from "content" to "design," the "smoking gun" internal emails, and why Google’s new chip breakthrough might just save Moore's Law and the power grid.