Big Tech Hit with Massive Fines for Kids' Addiction

0:00It's March 29th. This is Vancouver News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Two massive tech giants, Meta and Google, just took huge hits in court over claims their apps hooked kids. In Los Angeles County, a jury hit them with a $6 million verdict for a 20-year-old plaintiff who said Instagram and YouTube were built to. Addict young users. Meanwhile, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, another panel slapped Meta with $375 million per pushing child engagement. Things started shifting fast back on February 27th, right after the young plaintiff testified in LA, a Delaware court then ruled insurers. Don't have to cover Meta's defense in her case, and thousands like it. Both companies are vowing appeals, calling these losses just bad breaks. Experts never saw this coming, figuring these test cases would flop. But the plaintiffs' attorney hailed it as a game-changer, like lifting a world off their shoulders. This psychologist, Jonathan Height, who's long warned about social media's damage to youth,

1:04says wins like these give humanity real hope. These rulings could spark a total rethink for how social platforms run, ramping up legal risks across the board. They're already buzzing as potential rewriters of American tort law, putting pressure on big tech like never before. As appeals play out, watch this space, social media is facing its toughest scrutiny yet, and the stakes for kids online just skyrocketed.