Anonymous7 days ago
Two back-to-back jury verdicts in late March 2026—a $375 million penalty in New Mexico for enabling child exploitation and a $6 million damages award in Los Angeles for addictive platform design—have triggered comparisons between Meta and the tobacco industry of the 1990s. With more than 2,400 individual lawsuits, 800 school district cases, and 40+ state attorney general actions pending, the rulings mark a potential inflection point for tech industry liability that could reshape how social media platforms operate, how they are regulated, and how they are valued by investors.