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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:58 GMT
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cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="color:#202020;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:1px;line-height:1;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:12px"><p style="margin:0">NEWS WRITER<a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44912619.16022/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tLz91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eB600d129e" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener"></a></p> </div></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-3" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" 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color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case</a></strong></h1></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:17px"><p style="margin:0"> By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44912619.16022/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvbGljeS85MDA2NTQvbWV0YS1nb29nbGUtaW5zdGFncmFtLXlvdXR1YmUtc29jaWFsLW1lZGlhLWFkZGljdGlvbi10cmlhbC1rZ20tanVyeS1kZWNpc2lvbj91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eD788a38d8" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Lauren Feiner</a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px"> The jury in a landmark trial testing claims about social media addiction against Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube determined that the two companies failed to warn users about the risks of using their products. 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