Jury Verdicts Push Big Tech Toward a Kids Online-Safety Reckoning
TL;DR
Two separate juries finding Meta and Google’s YouTube harmed children, with New Mexico ordering $375 million and a Los Angeles verdict totaling $6 million in damages against Meta and YouTube, heighten regulatory and political pressure on Big Tech to redesign platforms and tighten safeguards for minors as lawmakers consider federal and state online-safety rules and debates over Section 230.
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