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Meta, Google risk big tobacco-like fallout after addiction trial
A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms.

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Meta, YouTube found liable for social media addiction in landmark trial
Jury Reaches Verdict in Meta, Google Trial on Social Media Addiction
Meta And Google Found Liable In Social Media Addiction Trial
Meta and Google are liable to pay $3 million in damages to the plaintiff, only identified as a 20-year-old woman named K.G.M., who said she became addicted to the two companies’ apps due to addictive ...

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Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
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Three key questions as woman wins £4.5m case proving Instagram is addictive
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
The decision could set a precedent for hundreds of similar cases and lead to major changes to how social media platforms operate, especially for young users — as well as millions, even billions, in lo...

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Meta and YouTube Lose Landmark Social-Media Addiction Trial
Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction lawsuit

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