Is social media addictive?

Is it dangerous?

And did social media companies know and decide to market it to children anyway?

Or is social media just a delivery system for plain old constitutionally protected free speech?

Welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

This is your libertarian review of news and culture from the editors of Reason magazine.

I'm your host, Peter Souterman.

And today I am joined as always by my colleagues, Catherine Mangue Ward, Met Welch, and Nick Gillespie.

Nick, I want to start with you.

There were two court judgments

last week against Meta and then in California it was also against Google. One was in New Mexico

for $375 million, another in California. There's $6 million. In the grand scheme of things,

not a ton of money for these social media companies to pay. But the core of the argument that

was made here is the kind of the slogan version is

social media is like tobacco.

It's addictive.

It's harmful.

Companies know that and they pushed it on kids anyway.

What do you think?

Yeah, it makes you look cool.

And, you know, you can use your camel bucks on Instagram.

It's toasted.

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