Bloomberg Technology | Meta, Google Risk Big Tobacco-Like Fallout After Addiction Trial by Kurt Wagner, Alexandra S Levine
A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive 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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