For critics of tech companies like Meta and Google, Wednesday’s verdict in the social media addiction trial has been literally years in the making.
Parents, child safety experts and some lawmakers said the finding of liability was a long-overdue moment of accountability.
“For the parents whose children died as a result of social media harms, today’s verdict is a huge step toward truth, justice, and accountability,” Sarah Gardner, the CEO of Heat Initiative, a three-year-old group that says it exists to “turn up the heat on Big Tech.”
Gardner argued that Wednesday’s verdict from a Los Angeles jury “is social media’s Big Tobacco