On 25 March 2026, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent for designing social media platforms that harmed a young user through addictive features, awarding $6 million in damages. Just one day earlier, a New Mexico jury had ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading consumers about platform safety and enabling child exploitation. These verdicts, the first of their kind, signal that public perception of social media giants is shif…
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