Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday, March 26, 2026. And we begin with a bombshell trial verdict and a wake-up call for every kid with a phone. Yesterday, a jury cited with a young woman who accused social media companies of using features designed to intentionally hook users, sometimes with devastating consequences.

Known only as KGM, the 20-year-old, says she started using Instagram and YouTube when she was in grade school

and became dangerously obsessed by the time she was a teenager. Her lawyer likened autoplay and

Infinite Scroll to digital candy for the brain and showed documents suggesting the companies built them to be that way.

The LA jurors agreed and found META and Google liable for $3 million in damages.

The jury subsequently awarded another $3 million impunitive damages for acting with malice, which means intentional

disregard for the dangers posed by their product.

Colleges across the U.S. are reinventing exams in the face of AI cheating. No laptop, chatbot,

or even pen or paper are allowed for students at some

universities, as professors are increasingly relying on talking tests to keep kids honest. Students in

Chris Schaefer's biomedical engineering class at Cornell are required to give what he calls

an oral defense. You won't be able to AI your way through an oral exam, he says.

University of Pennsylvania professor Emily Hammer says it's not all about preventing cheating.

She says students are losing skills like cognitive capacity and creativity from relying too heavily

on artificial intelligence to do homework, write papers, and take tests.

According to the Associated Press, feedback from students has been mixed,

with some saying it can be tough for those who are shy.

Others, however, like that it holds them accountable, with one saying,

it's a lot harder to look people in the eye and say out loud, I don't know this,

and that makes

you realize I should study this.

It's a no-go on logos for FIFA's World Cup.

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