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SCI & TECHLOWAug 20 · Aug 20, 2026, 5:46 PM

Landmark case against Meta: Focus shifts from online content to 'design and infrastructure'

France 24 [en]

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Leïla Mörch, CEO / Founder of Geminy. She specializes in technology, public policy, with a focus on social media regulation. She sees the landmark trial against Meta as potentially significant not simply because the social media giant is being asked to answer for harms associated with social media, but because the legal focus is shifting from content to design. Section 230 has historically shaped debates around platforms’ responsibility for what users publish. Here, however, the central question is increasingly about the infrastructure itself: recommendation

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