Hey everybody, welcome to STRONGER Weekly brought to you
by Purest Nutrition. I'm your host, Jesse Carajet.
Thank you so much for being here.
This week, something historic happened on Wednesday, March
25th, 2026, a California jury found that Meta and YouTube
liable for knowingly designing addictive platforms that harmed
young people in America. And they were ordered to pay $6
million in damage. And now there are over 2000
pending similar lawsuits waiting in the wings, including from
school districts, parents, state attorneys and people all over
the country. They're just lining up, folks.
And this could be what's being called big techs, big Tobacco
moment. And today we're breaking down
exactly what happened and what it could mean for the future of
social media. So more on that in just a
moment. But first, here are the other
health and fitness headlines that you need to know this week.
Let's dive in. All right, folks.
First up, huge news from the Olympics community.
The International Olympic Committee announced a major
policy change this week. Starting with the 2028 Los
Angeles Summer Games, eligibility for woman's events
will be limited. To get this biological females,
the policy uses a one time Sri accurate gene screening test,
which is a simple saliva, cheek swab or blood test to determine
the biological sex of the athlete.
The IOC says it's research shows that male sex development
converse a 10 to 12% performance advantage in running and
swimming events and up to 20% advantage or more in throwing
and jumping. IOC President Kirsty Coventry, a
former Olympic swimmer, said quote.
It is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological
males to compete in the female category in our events.
In addition, in some sports, it would simply not be safe.
The policy does not apply to grassroots or recreational
sports, only elite Olympic competition.
Next up, I really hate saying the C word, but unfortunately I
have to this week, and I'm talking about COVID, of course.
Health officials are tracking a new COVID-19 variant that's been
quietly spreading and has a fitting nickname, Cicada, like
it's namesake insect. This variant, officially called
the BA 3.2, spent years underground before re emerging.
First identified in South Africa in late 2024, it's now been
detected in at least 25 U.S. states in 23 countries.
In parts of Europe, it's driving up to 30% of new COVID cases.
The concern cicada is heavily mutated, which may help it
escape immunity from vaccines or prior infections.
The good news? There's no evidence that causes
more severe disease, and current antiviral treatments still work,
Doctor Andrew Picose of Johns Hopkins told Today Quote.
It looks scary on paper, but it hasn't really made a big impact
in terms of disease in most places yet.
Bottom line, keep an eye on it, but no need to panic.
COVID is still in the headlines. Next up, a new and massive study
finds that stress and or grief do not 'cause cancer.
So you've probably heard someone say stress can give you cancer.
It's a common belief, but a new large scale study says there's
no evidence to support it. Published in the journal Cancer,
researchers analyzed data from more than 421,000 people across
multiple countries. They looked at psychosocial
factors like depression, anxiety, grief, relationship
status, social support, and tracked eventually developed
cancer. The result?
No psychosocial factor was associated with an elevated risk
of overall cancer or breast, prostate or colorectal cancer.
Specifically, when small effects were observed, they were
explained by unhealthy behaviors like smoking or drinking.
So in other words, this study shows that mental health
symptoms are not an A factor on cancer, but it's your behaviors,
what you consume and how you live your life.
So lead author Doctor Lanike von Tool put it simply quote our
findings do not support the notion that poor mental health
or psychosocial stressors can increase the risk of developing
cancer. One less thing to stress about.
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And a new study says that is true.
So, presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual
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your digestion, your immune system, even your brain.
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So as I mentioned in the intro, big news, huge news this week
and personally, I couldn't be more excited for it.
The fact that Meta and YouTube were taken down in court and
essentially lost and they lost big, it really sets some
precedent for what I think is going to be a chain reaction of
thousands and thousands of lawsuits.
And hopefully all of that is moving toward what I hope to be
a ban of social media in America for anyone under 18, as well as
some limitations and guide rails or guardrails.
Excuse me, around the platforms themselves, taking a look at the
features that are designed to make us addictive and having
some regulation over them. Because this technology is not
just impacting our youth and our minors, It's also bad for
adults. It's a maladaptive coping
mechanism that some of us use to manage things like stress.
It it it, it makes us dysregulated.
It disconnects us from the world.
And I don't know about anybody listening, but personally, I've
felt I've felt a difference when I use social media too much
versus when I'm more present. So let's let's dive into exactly
what happened and what it could mean.
I think in the short term here in America, in the fallout, I
just saw actually this morning a headline that Meta itself has
fired hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of employees over all
different departments and sections in their in their
organization as a result of what could be additional lawsuits
that they're probably going to lose.
So let's start with exactly what happened so I can get you caught
up and then we'll talk about what it could mean.
So here's what went down, folks. A 20 year old woman in
California initially sued Mehta. Google's YouTube, which some of
us mistakenly don't consider to be social media, but it has a
lot of the same underlying features, Snap and TikTok.
And her claim was this that each of these platforms misses key
deliberately designed their apps to be addictive.
And as a result, she developed depression, anxiety, body
dysmorphia and suicidal thoughts starting when she was just a
child. Now if you're paying attention,
the headline here is that Meta and YouTube lost.
You might ask yourself what happened to Snapchat and TikTok
Well, they settled before the trial.
They probably saw the writing on the wall, but Meta and YouTube,
they decided to fight. And on this past Wednesday,
after more than 40 hours of deliberation across nine days, a
Los Angeles jury sided with the plaintiff.
They found that Meta and YouTube were negligent in their design,
concluding the companies knew their platforms were dangerous,
failed to warn their users, and directly caused substantial
harm, and the results of this trial.
The jury ordered them to pay $3,000,000 in compensatory
damages and $3,000,000 in punitive damages.
Meta is on the hook for about 70% of that.
Now, when you think about these behemoth organizations and what
we know about their finances, you might think to yourself, OK,
$6 million, big deal, drop in the bucket.
But when you consider the fact that right now there are more
than 2000 similar lawsuits out there bringing similar claims
against these organizations, that's where it could have a
serious financial impact. So it this is significant.
It's a significant precedent that has now been set.
And I was chatting with my wife this morning when I was relaying
this this news to her. I said, Can you imagine how many
other people out there in the country right now because of
this result are going to lawyer up and file similar suits?
And as a matter of fact, when I was researching writing this
episode, I typed into Google Meta YouTube lawsuit.
And instead of immediately seeing the search results, I saw
six sponsored ads from lawyers, random lawyers targeting me to
lawyer up, assuming that I might have a similar issue.
So things are going to change and they're going to change
fast. So let's hit on three major
reasons why this matters. Number one, this is the first
time, the very first time that a jury has ruled that social media
apps should be be treated as quote, defective products.
And it's not because of the content on them, because of how
they're designed. That's why things like infinite
scroll, autoplay videos, beauty filters, push notifications that
are engineered to trigger dopamine responses, which is the
underlying circuitry around and behind addiction.
The platforms themselves are the problems for years, for years,
the social media company said, hey, hey, we're just building a
thing. We're not responsible for what
people put on there. This is a societal problem.
This lawsuit says no, it's your problem because you're
engineering and designing it to turn that content into addictive
substances that we are consuming with our eyes.
And this is huge Second, the second reason why this matters
so much, This verdict validates a legal strategy that sidesteps
Section 230. The law that has protected tech
companies for decades by saying that those companies are not
responsible for the user generated content by this
lawsuit. Focusing on the design defects
of the platforms themselves, the plaintiffs lawyers found a way
around that shield. And as I said, the Domino's are
about to fall. Third reason, this is a
bellwether. It is a bellwether case.
It is a test case that is tied to those roughly 2000 other
pending lawsuits from families and school districts across the
country. And if plaintiffs keep winning
because they will keep bringing these suits, we're talking about
billions and billions and dollars of damages and
potentially fundamental changes to how these platforms operate.
Hallelujah, it is about time. One day before the verdict,
another jury in New Mexico ordered Mehta to pay $375
million for failing to protect young users from child
predators. So that's two major losses in
just 2 short days. And as one legal expert put it,
this is social medias big tobacco moment, of course,
referencing to decades ago when the tobacco industry took
massive hits, when it was proven that their products were hurting
people and making them more addictive, and then they put a
bunch of regulations around that particular industry.
So this is huge stuff. And if you're wondering what I
meant when I mentioned Meta not protecting children from child
predators, Meta itself took steps to make it more difficult
for law enforcement to identify and track down sexual predators
who are targeting minors on their platform.
That's right, a strategic decision to prioritize revenue
and users and engagement over the safety and well-being of our
children. If that doesn't make you pissed
off, I don't know what does. Especially as a father of two
young girls and a boy. I freaking can't stand, can't
stand Meta for some of the information and details that
came out in these two cases. This whole New Mexico case is
the thing that disgusts me so much.
Which is how the trial revealed that Meta deliberately used
encryption to make it harder for law enforcement to identify
predators on their platforms. They prioritize another words
user privacy, even when that privacy is shielding pedophiles.
And in that case, they showed how a law enforcement agency
created a fake account on Meta on Facebook of a juvenile girl,
and within hours, dozens and dozens of sexual predators try
to engage with and attract and speak with and connect to and
probably eventually lure that child.
And those chat messages were encrypted deliberately by Meta
to protect and make it more difficult for law enforcement
agencies to uncover who that individual is.
And they cited privacy and freedom of speech in those
things. But clearly, it was a
prioritization of profits over the health of our children.
And it's disgusting. Now I want to go over some more
trial details. I've kind of plucked out some
quotes and information that I think would be really, really
relevant for you. But before I do, I thought I'd
go high level and talk about some statistics that really
layout the problem that social media poses for our kids and our
entire society. I'm going to hit you with some
rapid fire stats here. Hopefully some of them stick.
But let's start with addiction as it relates to social media.
So first, over 2400 social media harm lawsuits have been filed on
behalf of children experiencing, quote, serious mental health
issues. Linked to social media is number
2 in the US 10% of adults, that's 33 million people are
currently thought to be addicted to social media #311% of
adolescents show signs of problems social media use, which
is up 7%, So almost one in 10 in just the last six years.
And lastly, on addiction, 92% of college students say they are
currently addicted to Facebook and Meta platforms. 9 out of 10
college students self reporting addicted to social media.
That's a problem. Now let's go more broadly on
mental health in general. Nearly 40% of high school
students experience persistent feelings of sadness and
hopelessness, which has skyrocketed in the last decade.
More than 20% of high schoolers have seriously considered
attempting suicide in the past year. 2 in 10.
That is horrifying. Next up, close to 10% of
students actually attempted suicide in the last year. 4th
teens who spend 5 to 7 hours a day on social media are twice as
likely to exhibit mental health problems.
Lastly, on gender, female students are twice as likely as
male students to have experienced suicide risk
factors. Horrifying statistics about our
youth. Lastly here some statistics on
usage itself. How much are people using the
Internet and social media? 46% of teens say their Internet
use is quote almost constant. Folks, look around yourself.
See families at restaurants with teenagers on phones.
Kids can't even wait in line at a gas station or a Target.
They can't stand there for 60 seconds without burying their
phone every single time. They're not literally forced to
interact with life or a human. They're flipping open their
phones and they're looking at it.
It's so sad. Next up, the average teen spends
4.8 hours on social media daily. What the hell?
Lastly. The heavily addicted teenagers
spend up to 9 hours on social media every day.
And if I can just throw this out there, parents, where the hell
are you if my teenager is on social media 9 hours a day?
How do I not know? How did it get there?
But how do you not do something about it?
If you got a kid, If you're listening and you're a parent,
please wake up, wake up, get involved.
You might have to have an argument or confrontation with
your kid to kind of reverse this and to take that technology
away. But you need to do it.
Listen to these statistics. Parents, wake up.
And if you're wondering what some of the most respected
health organizations think about this problem, the World Health
Organization, otherwise known as WHO, calls this a mental health
crises. And the Centers for Disease
Control, the CDC, calls it an epidemic.
And now a jury has finally said the companies knew it.
They prioritize profits over our children.
They knew what they were doing and it's about time they have
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harrowing epidemic or crises as these organizations cause.
Let's get into a little bit of details about the case itself
because it's fascinating and also frustrating.
So the plaintiff started using YouTube at just six years old.
Again, parents, WTF. Instagram at 11, even though the
platform requires users to be 13.
So she slipped through the cracks, which calls for tighter
regulations. By the time she was a teenager,
she was compulsively checking her phone, running to the
bathroom at school to see how many likes her post got, using
beauty filters obsessively, and spiraling into depression and
body dysmorphia as she claimed. Her legal team argued this was
not an accident. This is the crux of the case.
Meta and YouTube deliberately engineered these platforms to
exploit the developing brains of kids and teenagers, and her
legal team had the receipts. So here is a clip of lead
attorney Mark Lanier speaking to reporters about the case.
To take that preteen, to take that teenager whose mind is
still developing, and to be. Fully aware.
Of how you can use a casino effect, which is what the
YouTube documents talk about using a casino effect on a young
developing mind. That's outrageous.
And throughout the trial, what really reportedly swayed the
jury was kind of pulling back the curtains and exposing some
of the internal communications and strategy of Meta and YouTube
itself. And buckle up, because this is
the stuff. This is the shit that just
drives me up a wall as a father. So let's start here.
Internal documents showed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the captain
of the ship, and other high-ranking executives
describing efforts and strategy to attract and keep kids and
teens on their platforms. One memo shared with the jury
said, quote, if we want to win big with teens, we must bring
them in as tweens, catch them early, get them addicted and
keep them engaged. Those are my words, not theirs,
but that's how I interpret that. Another document showed 11 year
olds were four times as likely to keep coming back to Instagram
compared to competing apps, despite the 13 plus age
requirement. In other words, they knew that
their requirement was 13. However, people younger than
that were on their platforms. They knew that those young kids
were using their platform 4 times more than their quote
competitors and they wanted to keep it that way.
Next, internal research showing Meta knew there was research
that they knew that beauty filters cause body image issues
and they leaned into it anyway and just kept plugging them and
plugging them to drive engagement.
This is evidence of awareness of harm and then leaning into it
anyway for profits and revenue and to beat out their
competition. The jury was shown a 35 foot
collage of hundreds and hundreds of selfies from the plaintiff
that she had posted to Instagram over the years, many using
beauty filters while she was under 13 and struggling with
body dysmorphia. And the plaintiff showed
evidence that she had been seeking mental health treatment
throughout the case with the jury obviously saw the harm, saw
behind the scenes and sided with the plaintiff.
There were many quotes pulled from the case from, as I like to
call him, Mark Zuckerterd. But one quote I wanted to call
out here, when asked about the quality of the product and its
impact, he said, quote, if people feel like they're not
having a good experience, why would they keep using the
product? That response didn't land well
with me, probably didn't land well with you, and it's
certainly did not land well with the jury because this is exactly
the problem. The platforms are designed so
you can't stop using them. And his response is just
indicative of someone who's just strictly looking at this as a
business strategy and not considering the harm that it
causes. So how did they try to defend
themselves? What did Meta and YouTube say in
court #1 They said it's not our fault, it's the content, it's
not the platform, basically. Hey, you guys are putting this
stuff on there. It's not us.
We just provided the the platform.
And obviously that didn't land with the jury number 2.
They said correlation does not equal causation.
You cannot prove that social media causes mental health
issues. So they essentially insisted
that there's no scientific proof that social media platforms
itself causes the mental health outcomes.
And they tried to attack the plaintiff, saying that her
issues were multifaceted, maybe it was her home life,
pre-existing conditions, etcetera, that didn't work.
And #3 they said we've invested heavily in safety features.
That's a quote. They both pointed to they being
YouTube and Meta parental controls, content restrictions
and mental health resources that they've added in recent years.
But obviously, the jury heard all the testimony and all of
these defenses were obviously ineffective.
And the internal documents showed that executives knew the
platforms were harmful for years and years and years and leaned
into them anyway. So again, massive, massive
outcome. And I could not be more for it
and supportive of what happened and what's about to happen.
And what's interesting is if you think about other industries,
things like tobacco, alcohol, gambling, you know, we've seen
this before. That's why we're calling it the
big tobacco moment. You think back in the 1990s
where tobacco companies basically spent decades denying,
it's hard to believe, but denying that nicotine was
addictive, they tried to blame it on the people and said it's a
personal choice, even if you know that it hurts you.
But what wind up happening was internal documents were leaked
that prove that they knew it was addictive and cigarettes caused
cancer, but they kept pumping it out and pumping it out.
And of course, we know what happened with the tobacco
industry. And you think about alcohol and
gambling. Both industries have faced and
continue to face lawsuits that in their marketing and in their
products, they're targeting vulnerable or naive populations
to use their addictive products. And they've lost lawsuit after
their lawsuit until eventually becomes more restricted.
So I agree with this metaphor that this is a big tobacco
moment and I couldn't be more excited to see where this goes.
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kids, is how much of the burden or responsibility to keep kids
safe and protected and keeping them having healthy
relationships on these platforms, How much of that
responsibility falls on the parents versus the platforms?
And it's a slippery slope. And I think there's an argument,
but it's a both end. And that's my opinion.
It's a both end. Meta and YouTube would say it
falls squarely on the parents. They argue that parents should
monitor their kids screen time, set boundaries, use the parental
controls that they've built in there.
And then again, to be fair, I think parents do play a
significant role. My kids aren't on social media.
I mean, granted, they're young enough that they're they're
probably shouldn't be anyway. I mean, they're eight years old,
but they're not touching social media.
I don't, I don't care if I have to fight them tooth and nail.
They're not going on this crap until they're 18.
I don't, I don't care. And that's what I think the law
should be in America. I think should be 18.
Other countries have already implemented that law.
I think it's amazing. I think it's beautiful.
My kids aren't touching this shit.
And when I have friends and family members and I see their
kids on social media, I judge them.
I judge them because these facts are out there and they're
getting more and more known and there's absolutely no excuse for
parents to know these facts and to know the risk and to put them
on their unsupervised anyway. It's bullshit.
And if you're one of those parents, please, I'm sorry if
you I'm coming across judging and critical, but I'm right.
This is truth. You can't argue with it.
You can't let your kids on this stuff.
Not right now, not the way it sits today.
You just can't. And I'm very, very fired up
about this. As you can tell, it's a parent's
responsibility. However, it's also the
platform's responsibility. And what this case showed and
what more cases will continue to show, that these assholes knew
about it, they did it anyway. They justified it, they
rationalized it, they did whatever.
But the gig is up, they're done. And that's where we're heading.
And that's my prediction that we're going to see massive
sweeping changes in this country over the next months and year.
Hallelujah. Thank God, I'm all for it.
And I couldn't be more happy about this outcome.
So what's next? Of course, totally predictable.
Meta is fighting it. They're going to fight it.
Here's a clip from a major Meta executive just responding here
about the outcome. We respectfully disagree with
the verdict and will appeal. Teen mental health is profoundly
complex and cannot be linked to a single app.
We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously as every
case is different and we remain confident in our record of
protecting teens online. In other words, translate.
We're going to keep fighting and fighting and fighting.
It's disgusting. Here's a quote from FTC
Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who wrote on social media, and I
love this quote. A jury of regular people has
managed to do what Congress and even state legislators have not
hold Meta and Google accountable for addicting young people to
their products. A men Congress failed, state
legislations have failed. But guess what?
The good old people, the American people, a jury of peers
showed up and rolled up and said, you know what, this has
got to stop. Power to the process.
So here's what's next. Already, as I mentioned, over
2000 similar cases are pending to go to trial and we'll keep
you posted on all of the significant cases as they've
happened. Meta and YouTube are clearly
going to keep fighting tooth and nail.
I mentioned what's happening around the world, so here's just
a recap of other countries who are out ahead of us on this.
Australia became the first country to ban social media for
users under 16 in just couple months ago.
That was December 2025 and the platforms face fines of up to
$32 million for non compliance. Spain just announced a similar
ban for people under 16 calling social media a quote digital
Wild West France, shout out to the French are expected to pass
a ban for under 15 years old by September of this year, 2026.
And UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Poland,
Slovenia are all considering or drafting similar legislation.
And Malaysia last and not least announced the ban for under 16
starting in 2026. So globally, the message is
clear, protect kids first, not profits of these behemoth
companies. And also was something I'm very
fascinated about to see if there's any implications around
AI then AI, if you're if you're tracking on this, just the
threat that it poses to our workforce here in America and
internationally and some of the risks around that.
There are similarities here in that you would think, I think
historically these tech companies are protected for the
sake of capitalism and freedom and all those things, However,
at those platforms are causing harm to humans or society and
you can prove that and connect it.
You could see some fall out here.
The precedent has been set. Now people, the people can bring
lawsuits against these companies and in a jury of their peers,
they can get the verdict. That I think is just and true.
So I would say buckle up. Buckle up for how this impacts
AI. And I just want to say before we
part ways here, whether you yourself are over consuming this
technology, whether you're fearful that it's your, your
child or someone that you know that's doing the same, you can
take steps today to fix the problem.
You can set up boundaries, you can set up screen time
limitations on these apps. I certainly hope that this
conversation didn't just inform you of what's happening, but it
just may have inspired you to make the change that you need
for your own mental health and well-being.
Because these technologies are addictive, and when things are
addictive and you become addicted, there are consequences
to your physical, mental and emotional health.
And I would encourage you to pull up and take a long, hard,
truthful look at how you engage with these technologies and take
the steps that you need to get better and to be healthier.
So for the parents out there, some things you can do right
now. Have some honest conversations
with your kids about social media use.
Set boundaries, model healthy behavior yourself.
Don't be seen scrolling and ignoring your kids because
you're modeling it for them and they're going to follow what you
do. And please, please, even if
legislation doesn't come out yet, just delay smartphone and
social media use for your kids, especially the young kids who
are vulnerable. And for everyone, you can
support legislation like the Kids Online Line Safety Act.
You can call your representatives.
Just make some noise around this topic, get some momentum.
You can vote with your wallet. If you're unhappy with how these
platforms operate, delete them. Just delete them.
Don't pay them, don't contribute, don't give them the
clicks. Don't give them your eyeballs,
right? You can just revolt and not use
that technology. Share stories, talk amongst your
friends, and just try to be a positive influence in your
personal network and your close circle.
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