The Price of a Child
Two American juries found Meta and Google liable in less than forty eight hours for harm caused to young users of social media. The verdicts did not target the content published on the platforms but the design of the products themselves, infinite scroll, addictive algorithms, compulsive notifications. In doing so, they punched a hole through Section two thirty, the nineteen ninety six law that shielded big tech for nearly three decades. This Radar explains what happened, why it matters and what comes next in the legal battle that could reshape the internet.
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Parents who want to understand the real risks social media poses to their children. Technology professionals who need to know how design decisions can become the target of lawsuits. Investors tracking big tech who want to assess growing legal exposure. And anyone who uses social media and wants to understand why it is so hard to put the phone down, and what the courts are doing about it.
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