{"id":999669,"date":"2026-03-27T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999669"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:53:10","slug":"meta-and-google-fined-as-social-media-addiction-lawsuits-reshape-tech-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/meta-and-google-fined-as-social-media-addiction-lawsuits-reshape-tech-liability\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta and Google fined as social media addiction lawsuits reshape tech liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, which brought in tens of billions in revenue last year, has been fined $4.2 million \u2014 combined compensatory and punitive damages \u2014 by a jury in Los Angeles for the harm caused to a young woman, known as Kaley G.M. <\/p>\n<p>She said her addiction to social media platforms resulted in significant mental struggles. Google was also fined $1.8 million for YouTube being addictive to children and teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, which brought in tens of billions in revenue last year, has been fined $4.2 million \u2014 combined compensatory and punitive damages \u2014 by a jury in Los Angeles for the harm caused to a young woman, known as Kaley G.M. She said her addiction to social media platforms resulted in significant mental struggles. Google was also fined $1.8 million for YouTube being addictive to children and teenagers.<\/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-999669","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\/999669","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=999669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}