After over a week of deliberations, a Los Angeles jury today delivered a potential game-changing verdict of negligence against social media giants Meta and Google for creating addictive products and platforms that harm minors.
With possibly tens of millions in punitive damages still to be determined, the jury has awarded $3 million in compensatory damages to plaintiff K.G.M. Of that, Meta gets 70% of the blame, and Google has to own 30%, the jury said Tuesday.
Obviously, even with malice and fraud being thrown on the defendants by the jury, that’s nothing to the Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook and Instagram parent company and YouTube‘s bosses. However, if yesterday’s $375 million verdict out of a similar social media trial in New Mexico is any blueprint, expect the punitive award in the West Coast trial to be a comparable amount.
At the core of both the California and New Mexico trials
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