Jury Hits Meta and YouTube with $3 Million Compensatory Verdict in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has returned a verdict ordering Meta Platforms Inc. and Google's YouTube to pay more than $3 million in compensatory damages for deliberately designing addictive social media platforms that caused severe mental health harm to a young woman during her preteen and teenage years. Jurors found that Meta was 70% responsible and YouTube 30% responsible. The jury will now move into a second phase regarding what level of punitive da.
