The Rip Current with Jacob Ward

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AI That Promised Privacy May Have Been Sending Your Conversations to Meta and Google
A new lawsuit against Perplexity AI asks an old question in a new way: if you’re not paying, what exactly are you?
 • Jacob Ward
Transcript: They Already Know When You've Had Enough
The social media verdicts didn't just produce a judgment. They produced a guide to knowing the difference between healthy and unhealthy tech use — one…
 • Jacob Ward
Tech Companies Already Know When You've Had Enough
The social media verdicts show we don't need to draw the line between healthy and unhealthy tech use: the companies have done it for us already.
 • Jacob Ward
16:53
Everything I Said on Six TV Networks Yesterday
Yesterday a jury found Meta and YouTube liable for addicting kids by design. I was on CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Australian ABC, and the BBC…
 • Jacob Ward
4:37
Transcript: The Verdict That Could End Social Media as We Know It (with Nita Farahany)
A conversation with Duke Law's Nita Farahany about the landmark verdict that found Meta and YouTube damaged a teenager's mental health crisis — and what…
 • Jacob Ward
The Verdict That Could End Social Media as We Know It (with Nita Farahany)
Nita Farahany breaks down the L.A. and New Mexico verdicts, and how, after years of trying to articulate the dangers of manipulative design, a jury has…
 • Jacob Ward and Nita Farahany
24:17
The Era of Unaccountable Design Is Over
A Los Angeles jury just found Meta and YouTube liable for engineering addiction in a child. Combined with yesterday's $375 million verdict in New…
 • Jacob Ward
10:25
Transcript: The Era of Unaccountable Design Is Over
A jury just found Meta and YouTube liable for engineering addiction. I've been reporting on this for years. Here's what it means — and the story of a…
 • Jacob Ward
BREAKING: Meta and YouTube Found Liable for Addiction and Harm
A Los Angeles jury just found Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health — $3 million in…
 • Jacob Ward
How Meta's New Mexico Loss Could Lead to Billions in Damages—and Worse
Florida alone has ten times the population of New Mexico. If the social media verdict’s math scales, Meta’s exposure across pending state cases could…
 • Jacob Ward
🚨 BREAKING: Meta just lost.
A New Mexico jury needed less than a day to find Meta liable for endangering children. It's the first social media case to reach a verdict — and a…
 • Jacob Ward
5:20
BREAKING: Meta Loses in Court. Here Come 1600 More Lawsuits.
A New Mexico jury needed only a day to find that Meta endangered children. It's the first social media case to go to trial, the first to reach a…
 • Jacob Ward
The Rip Current with Jacob Ward
The Rip Current with Jacob Ward
Someone else is deciding how you work, what you buy, and who you become — and they didn’t ask you first. I’ve spent 20 years tracking tech power for NBC News, CNN, Al Jazeera, and PBS. Subscribe to see what’s coming before you’re living in it.
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