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

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Podcast: [The Silicon Insider](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-silicon-insider-1276858)
Published: 2026-03-27T21:01:23+00:00
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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.

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