The jury in Los Angeles' social media trial awards the plaintiff $3M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages; Meta will pay 70% and YouTube 30%
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The trial is NOT OVER. The jury said YouTube and Meta acted with malice and fraud, so now they have to decide the amount of punitive damages on top of the $3 million in compensatory. Court is back in session at 11 a.m. PST.
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During juror polling, two of the 12 jurors said this isn't their verdict. Civil juries in California state court do not have to be unanimous.
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Meghann Cuniff
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The jury returned the same verdict for YouTube. Yes to all questions. KGM's compensatory damages are $3 million. Meta gets 70% of the blame, YouTube 30%. Jurors said YES to malice and fraud,
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This verdict seemed very likely the moment that TikTok and Snap settled rather than go to trial. A landmark moment for Big Tech www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
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This is a big deal; Canada should take notice. — Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case — Jury found them negligent in app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. — www.n…
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One of the jurors, who gave her name as Victoria, addressed reporters in the courtroom hallway after the verdict standing next to the jury foreman, Matthew. Victoria said: “we wanted them to feel it, we wanted them to know this was unacceptable.”
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It is really early to tell the significance of this bc it could all be reversed on appeal on both whether the judge's early 1A and 230 decisions were correct (which allowed this to proceed to trial) and then the jury's decision as well. — This will likely be years before it is …
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Jury just came back with an additional $3M in punitive damages so grand total of $6M. — ~2000 Plaintiffs consolidated on the case are in different situations but even as a bottom number for settlement that puts the loss around $12B just for the California state cases that are c…
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Yesterday a jury in New Mexico found that Meta endangered children online. Today a jury in California found Meta and YouTube negligent for addictive product design. — And now: “There are thousands more lawsuits waiting to be heard... ” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
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The two jurors who disagreed with every answer (both are women) did not speak to reporters, but their tones during polling indicated they REALLY disagree. After 8 days of deliberation, the defense teams will have a lot to dig through as they prepare their motions for new trial.
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“He's the guru, so to speak, and he should have really, really known what he was going to say out to us jurors, before he even said anything,” the juror said of Zuckerberg.
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Two jurors spoke to reporters in the courthouse hallway about their $6 million verdict against Meta and YouTube. ($3M compensatory | $3M punitive, 70% Meta | 30% YouTube) One said Mark Zuckerberg's testimony “was not, it was — he changed it, and that didn't sit well with us.”
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Jurors have now recommended an additional $3 million in punitive damages, for a tentative total of $6M to K.G.M., the plaintiff. Every single AI company running parasocial chatbots is going to be holding some long meetings over the next few days.
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Woman gets $3 million in a jury trial because she says YouTube and Meta made her mentally ill. I'm concerned about kids and social media. But the hostility to personal responsibility and lawlessness of this decision is much worse. https://www.wsj.com/...