Is Social Media Big Tobacco 2.0? Suits Over the Impact on Teens

In the first of its kind, a jury found Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive. The verdict 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.

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