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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cTo take that pre-teen, to take that teenager whose mind is still developing, and to be fully aware of how you can use a casino effect, that\u2019s outrageous.\u201d \u201cWe respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal. Teen mental health is profoundly complex and cannot be linked to a single app. We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online.\u201d \u201cThese are the names of children who are no longer with us due to product design that these companies knew about all along.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re heading to D.C., with the evidence we have in hand in this verdict, and we\u2019re demanding safety protections and legislation to keep kids safe online from our legislators.\u201d<\/p>\n Meta and YouTube must pay a plaintiff a combined $6 million after a jury found that they knowingly designed features that were addictive and harmful for a young user.<\/span><\/p>\n By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n March 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Jury Rules Against Meta and YouTube for Addictive Features transcript Back transcript Jury Rules Against Meta and YouTube for Addictive Features Meta and YouTube must pay a plaintiff a combined $6 million after a jury found that they knowingly designed features that were addictive and harmful for a young user. \u201cTo take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[9716,5899,1846,1086,666,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-47465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-addictive","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-jury","11":"tag-meta","12":"tag-rules","13":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jury Rules Against Meta and YouTube for Addictive Features<\/h2>\n
Meta and YouTube must pay a plaintiff a combined $6 million after a jury found that they knowingly designed features that were addictive and harmful for a young user.<\/h4>\n