Meta faces landmark trial as US states allege deliberate addiction of children

Children exposed to deliberately addictive social media platforms designed to exploit developmental vulnerabilities and psychological susceptibilities.

In an Oakland federal courtroom, four American states have brought Meta before a jury to answer a question that may define the social media era: did a corporation knowingly engineer its platforms to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of children for profit? The trial, backed by a coalition of 29 states and seeking $200 billion in damages, draws inevitable comparisons to the tobacco litigation of the 1990s — a moment when society finally demanded that industry reckon with the harm it had long understood and concealed. What is at stake is not merely corporate liability, but the terms on w

Meta faces landmark trial as US states allege deliberate addiction of children

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