Jury Finds Meta and Google Negligent in Social Media Addiction Trial

A California jury found both Instagram owner Meta and Google's parent company Alphabet liable on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by a 20-year-old woman who alleged that YouTube and Instagram were designed to be addictive to children.The verdict, reported earlier by Reuters, could have wide ramifications in a host of similar liability cases that have accused tech giants of intentionally creating addictive platforms to hook children as users.Meta and Google will have to pay $3 million in compensatory damages, ...