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Meta Verdict Puts Addictive Design And Legal Risk In Focus For Investors
A Los Angeles jury found Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube liable for addictively designed platforms causing mental health harm to a young user.
The jury assigned 70% responsibility to Meta and ordered it to pay millions in compensatory damages.
Jurors concluded both companies acted with malice, oppression, and fraud, and treated social media as a defective product rather than just a content host.
The verdict challenges long standing Section 230 protections and could influence more than...