The End of Infinite Scroll. How 450 School Districts Took Down Mark Zuckerberg.
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Meta spent decades protected by Section 230, the law that shields platforms from liability for what their users post. Then prosecutors found a way around it - Don’t attack the content, attack the product itself. This video explores the massive legal case that threatened Meta with penalties reportedly reaching as high as $1.4 trillion. Attorneys argued that features like the Like button, infinite scroll, notifications, and engagement algorithms were deliberately engineered to keep users, especially children, coming back for more. Leaked internal research made the case even more dangerous. Meta’s own documents showed the company knew Instagram could worsen body-image issues, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders among teenagers, while whistleblowers alleged executives failed to act aggressively enough. The lawsuit threatened far more than a financial penalty. If courts treated addictive social-media design as a defective product rather than protected user content, the precedent coul
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