On Wednesday, a 12-member LA jury delivered a 10-2 verdict that Silicon Valley had long dreaded. It found Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google (YouTube) negligent in design and operation of their platforms, ruling their negligence as a substantial factor in causing grave mental harm to a young woman who started using YouTube from when she was 6 and Meta-owned Instagram from 9.
The jury awarded the 20-yr-old plaintiff, referred to as KGM or Kaley, $6 mn in damages - $3 mn compensatory, $3 mn punitive - and found both tech giants to have had acted with malice. Only a day before, a New Mexico jury had ordered Meta to pay $375 mn for violating state law by misleading users about children's safety on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp from sexual predators. Two verdicts, two US states, two days.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/detoxing-instagratification-with-the-california-verdict-governments-will-need-to-move-fast-against-social-media-addiction/articleshow/129832415.cms