Casey Newton predicts that repealing Section 230 would cause social media platforms to engage in more aggressive content moderation to avoid legal liability.

Casey Newton believes that employees at social media platform companies do not care enough about the well-being of teenage users to be trusted with their safety.

Casey Newton asserts that the primary role of Meta's policy chief, Joel Kaplan, is to curry favor with political figures like Donald Trump to advance the company's interests.

In the case of Lemon v. Snap, plaintiffs successfully argued that Snapchat's speedometer filter created an incentive for dangerous driving, establishing a key precedent for product liability cases aga...

Casey Newton believes that the core business model of social media platforms is based on the single incentive of maximizing user screen time.

Casey Newton suggests that algorithmic personalization is a key harmful mechanism on social media, where a single search can lead a user into a "rabbit hole" of harmful content like eating disorder vi...

Following the successful verdicts against Meta and Google, dozens more lawsuits are expected to be filed against social media companies based on similar product liability arguments.

Meta employs large teams, including cognitive scientists, dedicated to understanding human psychology to maximize user engagement and time spent on its platforms.

In a notable case, a lawsuit against Grindr regarding severe user-on-user harassment was dismissed after the company successfully used Section 230 as a legal shield.