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EPISODE · Jul 15, 2026 · 27 MIN

The lawyer who took on Meta – and won

from Today in Focus · host The Guardian

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced Meta and Google in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. Lanier, however, was determined to prove the companies had not just stumbled into a youth mental health crisis, but had helped to engineer it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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