{"id":999666,"date":"2026-03-27T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999666"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:51:40","slug":"meta-and-google-liable-for-social-media-harm-to-kids-in-landmark-us-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/meta-and-google-liable-for-social-media-harm-to-kids-in-landmark-us-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta and Google liable for social media harm to kids in landmark US case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet&#8217;s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve as a bellwether for numerous similar cases. <\/p>\n<p>The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for two of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies with annual capital spending over $100 billion each. The Los Angeles trial is meant to serve as a bellwether, or test case, for the thousands of similar lawsuits consolidated in California state courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet&#8217;s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a $6 million verdict that will serve as a bellwether for numerous similar cases. The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for two of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies with annual capital spending over $100 billion each. The Los Angeles trial is meant to serve as a bellwether, or test case, for the thousands of similar lawsuits consolidated in California state courts.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999666","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=999666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}