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Silicon Valley's Big Tobacco moment: first conviction treating social media as defective products
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media

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A Los Angeles jury ordered Meta and Google to pay $6 million to a young woman who became addicted to Instagram and YouTube as a child, in a landmark verdict treating social media as defective products. This decision, comparable to the Big Tobacco moment of the 1990s, paves the way for over 2,000 similar lawsuits and forces the world to rethink platform regulation for minors.
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