TWiT 1077: I Would Download a Car - New Jury Ruling Could Reshape Social Media Liability
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform "addictiveness" in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits. Find out why attorneys, entrepreneurs, and everyday users are suddenly on edge.
• Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube
• Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts
• Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy
• Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out
• Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims
• FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout
• Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs
• The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification
• Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography
• Antimatter on the move: CERN's oddball truck experiment
• Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse
• Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance
• Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger
• Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade
• Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers
• Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders
• Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future?
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Harper Reed, Brian McCullough, and Cathy Gellis
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Kathy Kellis is here, our favorite attorney. She's going to talk about the big meta social media trial. |
| 0:09.1 | Brian McCullough from the tech brew ride home. We'll talk about the latest tech news. Harper Reed is our AI guru. |
| 0:15.8 | He'll talk about why he thinks AI agents should have free time. And a big decision in the Supreme Court, ISP versus record company. |
| 0:25.0 | Who do you think won that one? |
| 0:26.3 | Coming up next on Twit. |
| 0:30.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:32.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:34.9 | This is Twit. |
| 0:36.4 | This is Twit. |
| 0:49.3 | This is Twit. This Week in Tech. Episode 177, recorded Sunday, March 29th, |
| 0:58.1 | 20206. I would download a car. It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 1:02.5 | It has been a great week for tech news, and that's why Kathy Gellis is here. |
| 1:06.0 | It's all court decisions all the way down. |
| 1:08.1 | Kathy is a contributor to TechDirt. |
| 1:28.8 | She is an attorney at law, in fact, admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court. So she might have some opinions about the most recent Supreme Court decision. Hello, Kathy. Hello. Thanks for having me. Good to see you. Yep. Same here. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. Okay. We're going to get down to business, obviously. Brian McCullough is also here, |
| 1:33.0 | a host of the morning brew ride home, the brew, Tech brew ride home. |
| 1:35.0 | Tech brew, we gotta fix that lower third. |
| 1:36.8 | Tech brew ride home. |
| 1:39.2 | Part of the morning brew. |
| 1:40.2 | Morning brew family, but it is the tech brew brand. |
| 1:44.7 | Yay. |
| 1:46.1 | Great to see you. |
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