{"id":17265,"date":"2026-03-25T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=ee82769cbb8a350ab35aba8d36b7f104"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:39:02","slug":"jury-finds-meta-and-youtube-built-addiction-machines-that-harmed-a-child-awards-3-million-in-landmark-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17265","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Meta and YouTube built &#8216;addiction machines&#8217; that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/03\/meta-youtube-liable-social-media-addiction-trial.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman\u2019s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in what is the first trial verdict of its kind in the United States. The decision, delivered on Wednesday after a five-week trial, found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/meta-youtube-liable-social-media-addiction-trial?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/meta-youtube-liable-social-media-addiction-trial\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman\u2019s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}