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2016 articles decelerating

YouTube has appeared in 2,016 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q3 with 61 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.

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The $6 Million Precedent
A Los Angeles jury awarded $6 million to one plaintiff. Meta lost roughly $150 billion in market cap. The ratio — 25,000 to 1 — is the story. Two juries in two ...

Coverage Timeline

2026-05-30
Reuters 5 related

Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M

A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled …

2026-05-22
Wall Street Journal 24 related

Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids

Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube reached deal to avoid first of more than 1,200 consolidated lawsuits by school districts

2026-05-21
Wall Street Journal 31 related

Meta joins TikTok, Snap, and YouTube in settling with a Kentucky school district to avoid a trial over claims the platforms were designed to addict kids

Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube reached deal to avoid first of more than 1,200 consolidated lawsuits by school districts

2026-05-16
Bloomberg 9 related

Filings: YouTube, Snap, and TikTok reach agreements to settle a lawsuit, set for trial in June, over claims social media addiction disrupted kids' learning

Snap Inc., Google's YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims …

2026-05-15
Bloomberg

Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning

Google's YouTube and Snap Inc. reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction …

2026-04-01
Platformer 3 related

The LA and New Mexico jury verdicts accepted that Meta's and YouTube's products have design defects, distinctive from what Section 230 was created to protect

The verdicts in last week's social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates.  But it's possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech

2026-03-26
CNBC 176 related

Social media addiction trial: an LA jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users on the dangers of their platforms; both plan to appeal

A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google's YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated …

2026-03-25
New York Times 78 related

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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CNBC 176 related

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms

A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated …

2026-03-18
Ars Technica 19 related

A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app Apple removed from the App Store that played music from YouTube

Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …

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YouTube has appeared in 1,963 Techmeme articles since December 2014, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Social media addiction trial: an LA jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed... and Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and TechCrunch.

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2024Q2consumer -20pts; competition +18pts; regulation +6pts
2024Q3enterprise -15pts; consumer +8pts; research +6pts
2024Q4enterprise +11pts; safety +7pts; consumer +6pts

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