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• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  @BedoyaUSA “The jury also decided that Meta and Google's actions should trigger punitive damages, which means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi-trillion-dollar companies for their cond…

• @nicoperrino Nico Perrino on x

  I'm concerned about this verdict and the overall trend of treating speech platforms as addictive — and therefore dangerous — products.  Also, the verdict diminishes the responsibility parents have to raise healthy kids.  For example: “Kaley says she began using YouTube at age 6 a…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  It doesn't. So stop being concerned. @TaylorLorenz shared this so cc her. It's the product design not the content. That has been and will be instagram and facebook's angle with friends and proxies to try to soften press coverage and parent outrage for harming their children.

• @bedoyausa Alvaro Bedoya on x

  Good flag that $3M may just be the beginning...

• @parismartineau Paris Martineau on x

  this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech firms' go-to defense (section 230) & hold them accountable for negligent design [i…

• @samadlerbell Sam Adler-Bell on x

  will somebody PLEASE think of the massive monopolistic companies that simply want to make a little profit off the anxieties, self-hatreds, and resentments of their users??

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  Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims

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  Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims

• r/InterstellarKinetics r on reddit

  BREAKING: A New Mexico Jury Just Ordered Meta To Pay $375 Million After Finding The Company Hid What It Knew About Child Predators On Instagram & Facebook And Lied To The Public About It 🚨

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  Jury orders Meta to pay $375 mln in New Mexico lawsuit over child sexual exploitation, user safety

• @jean_twenge Jean Twenge on x

  Sure, the “where are the parents?” argument, because it's so easy to keep kids off social media when age isn't verified, parental permission isn't required, the parental controls in the apps are so hidden and hard to use hardly any parents use them, and kids fear being the only

• @pauljpastor Paul J. Pastor on x

  Strong disagree. These are corporate products first, not speech platforms, and that distinction is vital. The same principles of common/social good that govern environmental pollution can & should be applied here. Parents are vital, but their action is not enough in this case.

• @malinowski Tom Malinowski on x

  Imagine a company was monitoring your child's behavior, deduced she was depressed, then phoned her to say “You might consider suicide, and can we send you some videos about that?” That's how social media algorithms are designed to work. The 1st Amendment does not protect this.

• @nicoperrino Nico Perrino on x

  @jason_kint @TaylorLorenz How you design and display your speech product is an editorial choice integral to the speech itself. How an editor lays out his newspaper or website is an editorial choice. So is adding cliffhangers to the end of TV shows. Those choices are — and should …

• @jillfilipovic Jill Filipovic on x

  I think these are fair concerns but I'm not sure “where are the parents?” matters here. If cigarettes are addictive and dangerous, especially for kids, we don't say, well, put 'em in the candy aisle and let parents do their jobs to make sure kids only have one or two a day.

• @vanceginn Vance Ginn on x

  Empower parents, not politicians.

• @juliecbarrett Julie Barrett on x

  This is a critical point that really must be at the forefront of our discussions about children and the digital world.  Ultimately, parents have the duty and responsibility to protect their children, to enforce boundaries, and to shield their children from the known harms online.…

• @manuelguzman Manuel Guzman on x

  Parents used to set time limits for tv viewing when I was growing up. Letting your 6 year old kid spend all day on YouTube is crazy.

• @astupple Aaron Stupple on x

  Jury finds talking to people is addictive.

• @brihreed Brian Reed on x

  Evidence at this trial put the lie to “it's the parents!” An internal study from @Meta and @UChicago found that parental involvement doesn't curb compulsive social media use - even when parents use Meta's own parental controls. They don't work; Meta knew it; still blamed parents.

• @patterdude Joe Patterson on x

  Social media platforms aren't simply a place for “speech .” That *was* the case with chronological timelines. But now, you see fed information based on an algorithm w the express purpose to keep you on the platform. That's the difference between, say, Signal and TikTok. We've

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  Slap on the wrist?  Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims