No Mercy / No Malice: Little Tobacco Moment

I'm Ina Garten. On my new podcast, happy hour with Ina, I'm inviting really interesting guests to join me for a drink and a fun conversation at my kitchen table in New York City. I'll be getting personal with chefs, actors, comedians, musicians, and writers I admire. So grab a snack, pull up a chair, and join us. Subscribe to Happy Hour With Ina on YouTube YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes will be available every Wednesday starting September 16. Megan Rapinoe here. This week on Why Are You Like This? I am talking with Roxanne Gay. That's right. Roxanne Gay. Roxanne is a fearless writer and cultural critic whose impact goes way beyond her New York Times bestselling books. We dig into all the big moments of her life, and, of course, she shares if she's more mommy, daddy, or baby. Check out the latest episode of Why Are You Like This wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. I'm Will Anderson, and this week on the very first episode of my new music history podcast, the Monday Music Club, we're talking about one of the pioneers of rock and roll, sister Rosetta Tharpe. She is the coolest. She recorded the very first rock and roll song, inspired everybody from Elvis to the Beatles, and absolutely shredded on electric guitar. She also got married in a baseball stadium in front of a giant crowd way before Taylor and Travis did. Her story is incredible. So if you're a music geek like me or even just a casual music fan, check out this week's episode of the Monday Music Club wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is no mercy, no malice. Meta's $17,000,000,000 social media addiction settlement is being called a big tobacco moment. It isn't. It's another Meta win. Little Tobacco Moment, as read by George Hahn. We've been played again. Last week, 47 states and the District of Columbia settled with Meta, resolving claims that the company had designed addictive algorithms targeting minors, violated youth privacy, and endangered children. The company didn't admit to any wrongdoing, but it agreed to pay up to $17,100,000,000 in penalties and make changes to its products. Texas settled separately on the same day for $1,000,000,000 and similar terms. The markets shrugged off the settlements, however, with Meta's shares rising 1% on the news. For those keeping score at home, a 1% increase in market cap on a $1,400,000,000,000 company means the settlements, breaking the fever of uncertainty, paid for themselves. I often call Meta the big tobacco of the attention economy. Tobacco destroys individual lungs and pollutes the immediate airspace. Meta's cancer metastasizes across our entire society. The conventional wisdom says this settlement is Meta's big tobacco moment. Finally, justice. Bullshit. This is the Meta knife thrust a foot deep into the West's corpus pulled out a centimeter. Let's start on a positive note. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general took action against …