A Los Angeles Superior Court jury, on March 25, found Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s YouTube liable for designing platforms in ways that foster addiction and harm users’ mental health. The case centred ...

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This case doesn’t mean you need to rip apart your product tomorrow, but it does mean you can’t treat your recommendation engine like a neutral feature anymore. If your system shapes behavior at scale, ...

A jury verdict just cracked open the “platform vs. publisher” mantra, and founders should start treating recommendations as a measurable risk surface.

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