Meta And Google Found Liable In Social Media Addiction Trial

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1:02a California jury found in a landmark decision on Wednesday just one day after a jury in New Mexico ordered the Facebook parent company to pay $375 million for enabling child exploitation and misleading the users about safety features meta in Google are liable to pay three million dollars in damages to the plaintiff only identified as a 20 year old woman named KGM who said she became addicted to the two companies apps due to addictive features meta which owns Facebook and Instagram was ordered to pay out 70% of the damages while YouTube was ordered to pay the remaining 30% the Wall Street Journal reported the lawsuit also named a tiktok and snap the parent company of Snapchat as defendants but both companies settled out of court for undisclosed sums meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mozeri both testified at the trial where Zuckerberg insisted the company was quote building this thing to be a good thing that has value in people's lives courthouse news reported in

2:04February in a statement to Forbes a meta spokesperson said quote we respectfully disagree with the verdict and are evaluating our legal options in a separate statement Google spokesperson Jose Castanieta said the company disagrees with the verdict and plans to appeal adding quote this case misunderstands YouTube which is a responsibly built streaming platform not a social media site for more on the story check out the article at the link in the description