Jury signals tech titans on hook for social media addiction

(techxplore.com)

33 points | by Brajeshwar a day ago ago

8 comments

  • jakeydus a day ago ago

    > A jury form given to jurors asks the panel to decide whether Meta or YouTube should have known their services posed a danger to children or if they were negligent in design.

    From the evidence I’ve seen Meta especially seems like they were not only negligent but malicious with regard to their users in their design decisions.

  • 2OEH8eoCRo0 a day ago ago

    It's amazing that the tech companies have avoided a jury for so long.

    • tt24 a day ago ago

      I agree, it’s shocking that the only productive sector of society has managed to remain unmolested for this long. I’m sure it won’t last, and we’ll soon regulate it into nonexistence and turn ourselves into Western Europe.

      • crusty a day ago ago

        'Productive' here is practically bursting from all the euphemisms it's swallowed.

      • greggoB a day ago ago

        And what does "productive" mean to you, exactly? To most, causing eating disorders in teenage girls (Instagram), being at the root of undermining various democracies (Facebook) and having credible evidence of aiding addiction for profit (this case) against you would be a tough set of qualifiers, I'd imagine.

        • gzread a day ago ago

          Highest revenue, probably

      • dfhvneoieno a day ago ago

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