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🏛️ Tort floodgates open on social media

The LA and New Mexico verdicts drew a map around Section 230 via product-liability law — trial lawyers now have a repeatable path against platforms with enormous cash flows, producing a death-by-a-thousand-cuts liability drag on Meta (and Google as co-defendant).

other ideas on the same ticker, same direction: ChatGPT takes Google search share and the market starts pricing the decay 21 (GOOGL) · Blue cities ban or license-cap robotaxis 20 (GOOGL) · Meta's AI assistant takes ten points of search share from Google 6 (GOOGL) · Narrow Section 230 carve-out unleashes a tort wave on social platforms 3 (META)

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Chamath politics-market 51% · n=95 · E289 (2026-09-11) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 53:36 SUPPORT

“The long tail of issues are going to be, if social media is a guide, this will be as bad or worse.”

Chamath politics-market 51% · n=95 · E266 (2026-03-27) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:04:24 SUPPORT

“this was the first time where they were able to navigate the Section 230 protections ... the door has been opened and a map has been drawn, ... I expect that this will be a death by a thousand cuts kind of scenario”

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Chamath 51%

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+47.9 → net +47.9

⏳ decay drained -27.5 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

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