{"id":51169,"date":"2026-07-15T22:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51169"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:10:32","slug":"the-lawyer-who-took-on-meta-and-won-podcast-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51169","title":{"rendered":"The lawyer who took on Meta \u2013 and won \u2013 podcast | Social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans. He was there to do something he\u2019d never done before \u2013 take the stand in front of a jury in a landmark civil case that sought to prove that Instagram and YouTube are addictive by design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>Jenny Kleeman<\/strong> tells <strong>Nosheen Iqbal <\/strong>about meeting <strong>Mark Lanier<\/strong>, the preacher-turned-lawyer on a self-described \u201choly war\u201d against tech superpowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">With a strategy that blends cutting-edge AI jury modelling with old-school theatrical courtroom stunts, Lanier is attempting to do what many thought impossible \u2013 force the titans of Silicon Valley to face the consequences of their creations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><\/span> Photograph: Gareth Iwan Jones\/The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans. He was there to do something he\u2019d never done before \u2013 take the stand in front of a jury in a landmark civil case that sought to prove that Instagram and YouTube are addictive by design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[6539,205,1086,515,204,1341],"class_list":{"0":"post-51169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-lawyer","9":"tag-media","10":"tag-meta","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-social","13":"tag-won"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}