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Reported claim

“A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable in a lawsuit seeking to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children, awarding 3 million dollars in damages to a 20-year-old woman plaintiff.”

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Reported by 2 sources.

Sources

The Guardian World supports high reliability
Meta and YouTube have been found liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a Los Angeles jury ruled on Wednesday.
2026-03-26
The Guardian World supports high reliability
A jury in Los Angeles has found both Meta and YouTube liable in a lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services and could open the floodgates to a spate of similar complaints against online platforms. The plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman identi
2026-03-25

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