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Meta found liable for youth harm in back-to-back court defeats
Juries in California and New Mexico have delivered consecutive verdicts finding Meta liable for products that harm young people — the first time a social media giant has lost on this ground in court. Legal analysts are comparing the moment to the tobacco industry's reckoning in the 1990s, when a string of trial losses cracked open decades of corporate immunity. The two verdicts arrived within 48 hours of each other.
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