Double Take By BNY Investments Newton
Jul 22, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
Eric Alexander, Product Liability Team Leader at Holland & Knight, joins Double Take to examine whether a landmark social media lawsuit could reshape platform liability, challenge long-standing legal…
Eric AlexanderGuest
Rafe LewisHost
Jack EncarnacioHost
Double Take listeners, you cannot help but notice that social media companies are on a constant hunt for our attention, always innovating and tinkering with their algorithms in search of better ways to keep us glued to their platforms.
But success in that endeavor can be a double-edged sword if they're too successful.
If social media goes from entertainment to, say, addiction, that can create a major new legal liability to the Metas and Googles of the world for harms caused to customers, which in turn could upend the very rules of the social Internet as we know it.
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