{
  "id": 17452,
  "url": "https://epic.org/judges-sides-with-epic-and-ag-telling-google-tiktok-and-meta-their-addictive-social-media-features-are-not-1a-speech",
  "title": "Judges Sides with EPIC and AG, Telling Google, TikTok, and Meta Their Addictive Social Media Features Are Not 1A Speech",
  "summary": "Big Tech’s overbroad arguments that their addictive social media features are protected speech were dealt a major blow in an order issued Thursday in the combined TikTok, Meta, and Google v. Bonta cases. These cases involved First Amendment challenges against California’s SB 976, which prohibits companies from providing addictive social media feeds to minors. The legislation's passage followed whistleblower reports and company leaks showing that the tech giants understood that adding engagement-",
  "authors": "Caroline Anders",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "google,meta,bytedance",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T19:01:20.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "epic",
  "source_name": "EPIC",
  "source_homepage": "https://epic.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17452",
  "original_url": "https://epic.org/judges-sides-with-epic-and-ag-telling-google-tiktok-and-meta-their-addictive-social-media-features-are-not-1a-speech",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}