Court finds Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive platforms targeting teens
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The Economist
Slightly gummy. The crust never quite set.
Summary
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive products, citing a confidential 2019 Meta slide deck that concluded "Teens can't switch off from Instagram even if they want to." The landmark ruling targets mechanisms engineered to rewire the brain's reward system, and the world is now digesting its implications.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledTeens can't switch off from Instagram even if they want to.
A Los Angeles jury read it into the record and found Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive products.
That means targeting mechanisms engineered to rewire the brain's reward system.
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