Meta, Google face ‘Big Tobacco’-like reckoning after landmark verdicts on social media addiction

Source: New York Post

Social media giants Meta and Google had their long-feared “Big Tobacco” moment after suffering a pair of devastating court losses this week – and the real legal trouble is likely just beginning, experts told The Post. Big Tech suffered a double whammy this week after a Los Angeles jury found Google and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta liable for fueling social media addiction for a 20-year-old woman known as “KGM” and ordered them to pay a combined $6 million in damages. A day earlier, a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties while ruling it failed to protect kids from sex creeps and misled the public.