Social media’s “big tobacco moment”, and the growing big tech backlash

The Fold's first ever listener questions episode is coming – fill out this form to pose a question of hosts Duncan Greive and Glen Kyne. Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss three huge stories impacting the social media and platform world. First is a landmark trial which contends social platforms are faulty products which visit huge harms upon their users – both Snap and TikTok have settled out of court, while Meta and Google will go to trial in a case with potentially enormous implications for the platforms.Next, they discuss the under-16 ban movement, which is spreading rapidly around the world, including New Zealand. Finally they analyse the EU’s multi-faceted resistance to big tech, one which epitomises the downstream consequences of Trump’s hostility toward his traditional allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Social media’s “big tobacco moment”, and the growing big tech backlash is an episode from The Fold by The Spinoff.

This episode is 51:23 long.

This episode was published on Feb 16, 2026.

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