{"id":999656,"date":"2026-03-27T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999656"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:43:40","slug":"is-addiction-by-design-finally-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/is-addiction-by-design-finally-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Is \u2018addiction by design\u2019 finally under fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if your favourite app was designed to keep you hooked, on purpose? A California court has just said exactly that, ruling that Meta Platforms Inc.&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram and Alphabet Inc.&#8217;s YouTube built features like infinite scroll and algorithmic feeds to drive compulsive use among young users.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a US story. With India already considering age limits on social media, the ruling could fast-track stricter rules. After all, India is Big Tech\u2019s biggest user base, especially among the young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if your favourite app was designed to keep you hooked, on purpose? A California court has just said exactly that, ruling that Meta Platforms Inc.&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram and Alphabet Inc.&#8217;s YouTube built features like infinite scroll and algorithmic feeds to drive compulsive use among young users. This isn\u2019t just a US story. With India already considering age limits on social media, the ruling could fast-track stricter rules. After all, India is Big Tech\u2019s biggest user base, especially among the young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999656","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}