This wasn’t the best week for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. A Los Angeles jury found the social media giant liable for deliberately creating addictive platforms for children. Meta was only one part of the lawsuit; the other was Google’s YouTube. Both companies were found at fault and fined millions of dollars.
Claiming anxiety and depression, the unnamed 20-year-old woman made her case that algorithms and crafty inventions such as “infinite scrolling” were the cause of her mental health issues. Most agree that such a ruling opens Pandora’s box, encouraging similar legal actions to flood court dockets.
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