{"id":347163,"date":"2026-03-25T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/jury-finds-youtube-meta-negligent-in-landmark-social-media-trial"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:05:22","slug":"jury-finds-youtube-meta-negligent-in-landmark-social-media-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/jury-finds-youtube-meta-negligent-in-landmark-social-media-trial","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds YouTube, Meta negligent in landmark social media trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">In a landmark decision, a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing apps that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn them about the dangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The jury awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $3 million. The jury also found punitive damages are warranted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The lawsuit, brought by a 20-year-old woman identified as &#8220;Kaley,&#8221; alleges major social media companies <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/opening-arguments-begin-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-129993244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" dir=\"ltr\">intentionally<\/a> designed their platforms to be addictive. The suit claims features like auto-scrolling got the plaintiff addicted to the platforms, ultimately leading to anxiety, depression and body image issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/GMA\/News\/jury-returns-verdict-meta-youtube-landmark-social-media\/story?id=131121474\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark decision, a jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing apps that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn them about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,5680,24463,16100,446,24461,24462],"class_list":["post-347163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-entertainment-culture","tag-jury","tag-k-g-m-v-meta-et-al","tag-landmark-social-media-trial","tag-law-crime","tag-main-social-media-corporations","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347165,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347163\/revisions\/347165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}