India, March 26 -- An American civil court jury this week found Meta and YouTube designed their social media services to be addictive and awarded $6 million in damages to a young woman who said features such as infinite scroll, beauty filters and algorithmic recommendations drove her into compulsive use, depression and body dysmorphia. A day earlier, another US jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about child safety. The sums are, by Big Tech standards, modest. But for the first time, a jury has held social media companies liable not for what users post but for how the product is built - the theory of harm that broke Big Tobacco in the 1990s, when it was found to be knowingly manufacturing addictive products while co...
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