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Section 230 plays differently in parallel Calif., New Mexico social media trials

By Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes ( February 13, 2026, 23:40 GMT | Comment) -- Two separate trials kicked off this week against Meta Platforms in New Mexico and against Meta and YouTube in Los Angeles, with state court judges in both cases trying to navigate how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act limits evidence about social media content. In Los Angeles, Judge Carolyn Kuhl has tried to maintain an impermeable wall between platform design features and content, while Judge Bryan Biedscheid in Santa Fe has been much more lenient about the use of content in the trial.As juries in California and New Mexico began hearing evidence this week over alleged social media harms to teens by Meta Platforms and YouTube, there was a key difference: Evidence about content was banned in Los Angeles, but the wall between content and features was more porous in Santa Fe....

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