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Off Air with Ron Chapman
Off Air explores the nation’s most important legal headlines with depth and context you won’t find in mainstream media.
Hosted by Attorney and TV news analyst Ron Chapman, Off Air brings real courtroom experience to the stories shaping the country. Neil Cavuto has called Chapman an “attorney extraordinaire,” and a federal judge described him as “one of the best attorneys I’ve seen in my 20 years on the bench.”
With more than 175 acquitted counts in federal cases, Chapman delivers real-world insight and rigorous legal analysis on the cases that matter most.
Off Air with Ron Chapman
Social Media on Trial: 7 Tactics Exposed in Court
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Two major lawsuits and a $6 million verdict have forced social media companies to answer for the systems they built. Whistleblower testimony, expert witnesses, and internal documents exposed a series of deliberate design choices meant to keep users on the platform past the point of healthy use.
Federal criminal defense attorney Ron Chapman walks through the seven specific tactics that came out during these proceedings. He covers how infinite scroll and autoplay were engineered to eliminate natural stopping points, how algorithmic feeds replaced real social connections with engagement-maximized content, how likes and follower counts activated reward centers in developing brains, and how internal Meta documents showed the company built safety features and then pulled them back to protect ad revenue.
Ron also examines Section 230, the law that gave social media companies immunity from lawsuits for over two decades, and explains why a $6 million jury verdict and hundreds of pending cases may finally force these companies to change.
You'll hear:
- How Meta built break features and then throttled them
- Why algorithmic sequencing replaced your friends' posts
- How likes and followers exploit adolescent brain development
- The fear of missing out strategy behind disappearing content
- What Section 230 actually protects and why it may be ending
- How 12 jurors may have changed social media permanently
If you use social media or have children who do, this episode lays out what these companies designed, what they knew, and what the courts are doing about it.
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