{"id":24752,"date":"2026-09-07T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/why-meta-started-losing-in-court-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:38:24","slug":"why-meta-started-losing-in-court-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/why-meta-started-losing-in-court-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meta started losing in court &#8211; podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy McQue, who has spent years reporting on Meta and the potential harms its platforms pose to children, explains the tactics being used by prosecutors<\/p>\n<p>For years, the investigative journalist <strong>Katy McQue <\/strong>has been reporting on the potential harms Meta\u2019s platforms pose to children.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as she explains to <strong>Annie Kelly<\/strong>, despite the mountain of evidence compiled by journalists, prosecutors, bereaved families and others, it has been nearly impossible to bring Meta and other social media companies to court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/sep\/07\/why-meta-started-losing-in-court-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4f08e1f200842c5b0cfe79a96b5f89b3209d6ac\/383_0_2779_2223\/master\/2779.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f1d59fda9baf18c583296825d43eb67e\" title=\"Why Meta started losing in court - podcast\" \/>Katy McQue, who has spent years reporting on Meta and the potential harms its platforms pose to children, explains the tactics being used by prosecutors<br \/>\nFor years, the investigative journalist Katy McQue has been reporting on the potential harms Meta\u2019s platforms pose to children.<br \/>\nYet, as she explains to Annie Kelly, despite the mountain of evidence compiled by journalists, prosecutors, bereaved families and others, it has been nearly impossible to bring Meta and other social media companies to court. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy McQue, who has spent years reporting on Meta and the potential harms its platforms pose to children, explains the tactics being used by prosecutors For years, the investigative journalist Katy McQue has been reporting on the potential harms Meta\u2019s platforms pose to children. Yet, as she explains to Annie Kelly, despite the mountain of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/why-meta-started-losing-in-court-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Meta started losing in court &#8211; podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}