Marketplace All-in-One Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation
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Mar 27, 2026 
Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, breaks down this week’s big tech headlines. She covers a landmark LA verdict finding addictive design in social platforms, internal documents revealing company awareness of harms, the Labor Department’s new AI literacy text course, and Kalshi’s tighter self-regulation for prediction markets.
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Social Platforms Framed As Products In Landmark Case
- Juries treated social apps as products not pure speech, enabling negligence claims.
- Maria Curi cites internal Meta documents and features like infinite scroll and autoplay as evidence companies knew youth harms yet rolled features out anyway.
Verdict Could Trigger Mass Litigation And Policy Change
- The LA verdict could be a bellwether leading to thousands more cases and congressional action.
- Maria warns the dollar award matters less than potential product changes, settlements, and policy fallout to watch next.
Watch For Product Remedies Like Age Verification
- Expect regulators and attorneys to push for concrete product changes like age verification and ending encrypted messages for minors.
- Maria points to the New Mexico case where the attorney general is seeking remedies aimed at product design.