Meta, Google Risk Big Tobacco-Like Fallout After Addiction Trial
A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms.
- <b>Legal precedent</b> established as jury holds Meta and Google responsible for harming young user through addictive platform design.
- <b>Big Tobacco comparison</b> emerges as tech companies face similar liability risks for products causing user harm.
- <b>Platform immunity</b> shield shows potential cracks as companies lose protection from responsibility for on-platform consequences.
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