Thursday, March 26, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the verdicts against social media companies in cases from California and New Mexico, the death of Kermit Gosnell, the confusion of our prosecutors who do not want to prosecute a woman in any case for abortion as murder, and the cultural loss of the discontinuation of CBS radio.
Part I (00:13 – 06:56)
History Changed Yesterday: Verdicts Were Handed Down in California and New Mexico With Huge Financial Penalties —And Even Bigger Threats—for Social Media Companies
Part II (06:56 – 12:27)
The Death of Kermit Gosnell: Infamous Late-Term Abortion Doctor Died in Prison After Being Convicted for Murder of Babies
- Kermit Gosnell, 85, Dies; Imprisoned Abortion Doctor Convicted of Murders by The New York Times (Trip Gabriel)
Our Society Is Deeply Confused: We are Facing Prosecutors Who Do Not Want to Prosecute a Woman in ANY Case For Abortion as Murder
- A Murder Charge in Georgia Exposes Complexities of the Abortion Debate by The New York Times (Rick Rojas, Pam Belluck, and Susan Cooper Eastman)
A Parable of Our Modern Age: CBS Radio Will Not Continue, And It’s a Cultural Loss
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 26, 2006. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, it's now happened. It hasn't happened until yesterday. |
| 0:16.0 | After yesterday, everything in this sense is going to be different. |
| 0:20.0 | So what happened yesterday? |
| 0:22.2 | Jury verdicts against social media platforms with multi-million dollar penalties. |
| 0:28.4 | This hasn't happened before. |
| 0:29.4 | You can draw kind of a line in history because things are going to be different from this time onward. |
| 0:34.3 | I am in no position to tell you exactly what the fallout from all of this |
| 0:38.0 | is going to be, but everything is going to be different. In the state of New Mexico and California, |
| 0:42.8 | verdicts handed down judgments against social media platforms. There are two different cases, two |
| 0:48.0 | different grounds, but the pattern is the same. In California, we are talking about a young woman accusing these social media |
| 0:56.1 | platforms of intentionally addictive systems that drew young people in and caused mental damage. |
| 1:03.6 | And she was not only vindicated in terms of the verdict, but she was also awarded $3 million. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, you know already that $3 million is basically |
| 1:12.5 | nothing when you look at the financial power of these big social media platforms, but in this case, |
| 1:18.1 | $3 million is massive because this is exactly $3 million more than has ever been such a judgment |
| 1:25.9 | before. Okay, so it also opens the door for a nearly endless number of similar suits. |
| 1:33.0 | So we are looking at a very interesting moment. |
| 1:35.8 | Now, of course, there can be appeals, there can be reversals, there can be all kinds of subsequent legal judgments, |
| 1:40.8 | but at least at this point, something has happened that hasn't happened before, |
| 1:45.0 | and we could see it coming, and now it happened yesterday. And the case in New Mexico had to do |
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