Wall Street Journal: Attorney Mark Lanier moonlights as a preacher, and it shows when he’s taking on the world’s most powerful companies.
The 65-year-old came to court in downtown Los Angeles for closing arguments this month in one of the biggest trials of his career, armed with a parable of leavened bread. He knew he needed a simple way to show a jury that Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube were designed to be addictive and were harmful to young people.
So the veteran plaintiff’s lawyer from Texas showed them two grocery items: cupcakes and tortillas. Social media, he told the courtroom, was like the baking powder that makes a cake rise, exacerbating the struggles of already vulnerable teens…