Meta on Trial: The Case That Could Make 'Addictive Design' a Legal Liability
For the first time, a US court is putting Meta's product design itself on trial — not what people post on Instagram and Facebook, but how the platforms are engineered to keep kids hooked. If the argument sticks, it would create something American law has never clearly had: liability for building an app that's deliberately hard for a child to put down.
Bottom Line
This trial matters less for the verdict than for the mechanism: litigation forces disclosure that regulation and hearings haven't. The tobacco parallel isn't about whether Instagram equals cigarettes — it's about whether internal documents show a company knew and didn't act. That question is now in front of a jury, and the answer will shape how every app your kid uses gets built.
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