Addictive Social Media is Harmful to Youth, Jury Says
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Scott Schaefer, host of KQ80's Political Breakdown. Head over to Political Breakdowns |
| 0:05.6 | Feed Saturday, April 4th to catch a debate between the top three candidates trying to get |
| 0:10.4 | your vote for the San Francisco congressional seat, now held by Nancy Pelosi for the past 38 years. |
| 0:16.9 | We'll hear from San Francisco supervisor Connie Chan, former political advisor and software engineer |
| 0:22.6 | Shoycott Chakrabarty and California State Senator Scott Weiner on why they should be the one to replace the Speaker of Merida. |
| 0:29.9 | That's Saturday, April 4th. Search for Political Breakdown wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.2 | From KQED. |
| 0:38.9 | This is Forum. I'm Rachel Myro in Fermina Kim. |
| 0:42.8 | Last week, Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a case centered around social media |
| 0:48.8 | addiction. The argument at the heart of the plaintiff's case, the products themselves, |
| 0:56.1 | the infinite scroll, the heart of the plaintiff's case, the products themselves, the infinite scroll, |
| 1:03.5 | the algorithms, the design choices that keep not just the kids, all of us, on the apps for too long, until, as the kids like to say, we're all cooked. We all feel the addictive pull of these |
| 1:10.7 | platforms. But after years of congressional |
| 1:13.6 | hearings that went nowhere, of state regulation that's nibbled around the edges of this elephant, |
| 1:20.4 | the courts appear to be the stage where Silicon Valley is maybe finally forced to confront |
| 1:26.9 | the question of accountability. |
| 1:29.3 | Joining me to break it all down today are two reporters who have been covering this. |
| 1:34.1 | Jasmine Metani, technology reporter for the 19th, joining us via Zoom from Los Angeles. |
| 1:40.1 | Thank you for being here, Jasmine. |
| 1:42.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:43.9 | And Jeff Horwitz in studio, technology reporter covering meta for the Reuters Enterprise team. |
| 1:51.5 | And I should also mention the lead reporter on the Wall Street Journal's Facebook |
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