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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Juries To Big Tech: Stop Hurting Our Kids!
Description: This week, the business landscape in which big tech companies operate dramatically shifted, as juries in two different states awarded big monetary judgements to plaintiffs who alleged the social media giants Meta and Google were harming children.
While the two cases—one in California, and the other; in New Mexico–were similar, they were not the same.
So, to get some clarity on what was claimed in each, and how the juries made their decisions; I talked about it with University of Akron Visiting Law Professor, Jess Miers.
Miers focuses on the intersection of law and technology, has actually worked in th...