Such news coverage of the order from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers suggests the tech companies mostly lost. But from my perspective as a Yale University law professor, Silicon Valley mostly won.
Yes, Judge Rogers let stand a significant fraction of the claims in the hundreds of lawsuits that have been consolidated in her courtroom. But the most spectacular allegations - that social media addicts teens and damages their health - were mostly dismissed.
The judge's opinion picks up on precisely the weakest part of the argument that social media addicts us. The difficulty isn't whether the premise is true. It's whether the premise is punishable.
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