#608: Meta to pay over $375Million!
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kathy and Jim discuss the recent New Mexico and New York cases in which Meta was found liable for making their platforms addictive and not doing enough to protect children who use the platform.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clanty, retired FBI profiler, former New York City |
| 0:18.0 | prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds, and Bluebeard on |
| 0:21.5 | Audible. |
| 0:22.4 | And with me today is... |
| 0:23.6 | Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI agent and profiler and co-host of the Audible |
| 0:28.9 | podcast, FBI Profilers, Criminal Archives. |
| 0:33.7 | Well, Kathy, we had a technical glitch, and we actually recorded this episode in person together in the same room. |
| 0:43.0 | We did at my house. |
| 0:44.9 | Part of it did not work. |
| 0:46.2 | So, yes, I'm on a cross-country trip, and I came by. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm in my traveling van, and I was actually in your living room and it was great to see you. |
| 0:57.7 | Yeah, it was a wonderful visit. But I don't I don't know what happened technically, but we had to |
| 1:02.3 | redo the beginning and here we are again. But today we're going to be talking about something |
| 1:08.0 | that's a real problem. And I think it's going to be something that is going |
| 1:13.0 | to rear its ugly head over and over and over again in the future. But it's basically how the |
| 1:21.0 | social media platforms and the really big ones like meta or Facebook is basically being held responsible for what goes on on their |
| 1:35.1 | platform. |
| 1:36.9 | Exactly. |
| 1:37.9 | These are really groundbreaking cases. |
| 1:40.8 | I think that it's been really a long time coming that we've seen these cases finally go to court. |
| 1:47.0 | And jurors are now holding meta and other platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Snapchat, responsible for their content. |
| 1:57.0 | And there are several allegations, one being that the content causes addiction to social media, |
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