Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment
Offline with Jon Favreau
Crooked Media
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mark Zuckerberg is finally being held accountable–not by government regulators, board members or shareholders, but by two lawsuits. Tech journalist Casey Newtown, editor of Platformer, joins Offline to explain how a young woman in California beat Meta and Google on the grounds that Instagram and YouTube had destroyed her mental health. Jon and Casey discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the case, whether losing end-to-end encryption could lead to a surveillance state, and what happens if social platforms’ defensive shield, Section 230, is overturned. Then Jon speaks to New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez about his successful lawsuit against Meta, how the social media company plans to appeal it, and whether the case he’s made could ultimately lead the Supreme Court to regulate this 21st century addiction.
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| 0:03.5 | Let's face it, after a night with drinks, we're not bouncing back like we used to because we're old. We're in our 40s. And honestly, if you're 30 or over and you're not using zbiotics, I need to, I want to pull you aside and have a personal talk with you about your life choices. And also, don't think you're so great if you're in your 20s. you could use zibiotics in your 20s too. |
| 0:22.2 | And I think you just feel better. |
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| 1:37.1 | off. Quick question. Are you politically engaged and spiritually exhausted? |
| 1:44.8 | If you said yes to both, welcome home. I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 1:47.9 | And I'm Alyssa Master of Monaco. |
| 1:50.1 | And we're the host of Hysteria, the podcast for women who care about democracy, culture, and not losing their minds in the process. |
| 1:56.5 | We break down the news, call out the nonsense, and spotlight the women actually fighting back on Capitol Hill, in classrooms, and everywhere the stakes are high. |
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| 2:17.7 | Once a juror understands that a company has been researching this |
| 2:21.8 | and that the more they looked into it, sort of the worst stuff they found, |
| 2:25.1 | and then also that research kind of gets canceled or the researchers get moved to other |
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