{"id":999547,"date":"2026-03-27T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999547"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:16:34","slug":"meta-google-risk-big-tobacco-like-fallout-after-addiction-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/meta-google-risk-big-tobacco-like-fallout-after-addiction-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, Google risk big tobacco-like fallout after addiction trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers \u2014 a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>While the $6 million in damages a jury in Los Angeles awarded to the 20-year-old plaintiff \u2014 which the companies vowed to appeal \u2014 will barely register on their balance sheets, the impact of the verdict will likely be more damaging and harder to quantify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers \u2014 a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms. While the $6 million in damages a jury in Los Angeles awarded to the 20-year-old plaintiff \u2014 which the companies vowed to appeal \u2014 will barely register on their balance sheets, the impact of the verdict will likely be more damaging and harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}