‘Beyond massive': How a court victory by a teenager addicted to Instagram and YouTube could upend the whole tech industry [Yahoo! Finance]
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Amid a nationwide reckoning about the harms of smoking , Engle convinced a Florida jury that cigarette makers had knowingly sold addictive products while lying about their dangers. Now, jurors in Los Angeles have reached a similar verdict about Instagram and YouTube. While the consequences are still to play out, they could ultimately prove as seismic as the mass of lawsuits that humbled Big Tobacco in the 1990s. On Wednesday, the panel at the Superior Court of California found YouTube and Meta — the sprawling social media company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — liable for harming a young woman known as K.G.M. by knowingly designing addictive and distressing products Crucially, this ruling effectively bypasses the traditional legal shield which Big Tech has used for decades to deflect such claims, commonly known as Section 230 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Los Angeles Superior Court after testifying on February 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, California as part
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