08-06-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com

The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived. He was talking about social media. But the legal machinery he described is […]
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