As Juries Turn Against Social Media for Harming Kids, Big Tech’s Invincibility Starts to Show Cracks

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For years, parents, adolescents, pediatricians, educators and tellers have defended the idea that social networks are harmful to the mental health of young people and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, jurors in two states of the United States have taken their side. A jury determined Wednesday in Los Angeles that Meta and YouTube were both responsible for the damage caused to minors who …

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NEW YORK- For years, parents, teens, pediatricians, educators, and whistleblowers have driven the idea that social media is harmful to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and suicide.For the first time, jurors in two states gave them the right.

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To this day, practically everyone has one or several social networks. It’s not just about uploading our photos, videos and sharing content with our friends, couple or family, but rather most of it is consuming content and there’s plenty of it. Millions of images, posts or videos fill the networks and create so much daily content that it would be impossible to see everything. There are people who enter social networks several times a day and cons…

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In a verdict likely to mark a turning point for social networks, a jury in Los Angeles found on Wednesday that Instagram and YouTube were responsible for the addictive nature of their platforms and for the mental health problems suffered in adolescence by a young Californian woman.