Jury finds Meta, YouTube liable for social media addiction: What we know

Jury recommends Google and Meta pay $6m damages in landmark social media addiction lawsuit.

A Los Angeles jury has found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for damages in a landmark civil trial over youth social media addiction. Campaigners and parents who say social media use has harmed their children, in some cases causing eating disorders, self-harm or deaths by suicide, welcomed the jury’s decision outside the court.

The jury’s decision on Wednesday came at the end of a case in which the plaintiff’s legal team argued the companies are legally responsible for the addictive design of their platforms.