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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Meta and YouTube were found liable for negligence and failure to warn in a landmark case that could set the precedent for thousands of trials to come.

The jury also deciding that both

companies acted in malice, oppression, or fraud, that brings the total damages to an amount of

$6 million. That's for both punitive and compensatory damages, with META to pay a total of $4.2

million and YouTube to pay $1.8 million.

First of all, those are tiny amounts of money, but it does open the door to sue in the pants off of these big companies because of their malice suppression and fraud, and the finding

that meta's apps and Google's YouTube were deliberately built to be addictive.

Yeah. Every product is built to be addictive. Yeah.

Every product is built to make you use it as much as possible.

Unquote addictive.

The NBA tries to make it as watchable as possible, hoping you'll watch every game and never stop.

And lays potato chips tries to make it so you can't stop eating them and that there's endless examples so i just don't understand well and that's that's sloppy journalism to me i mean it's like

saying why did you leave your wife well because she's a biotch oh okay no no no you've got to

define that term you that's actually begging the question. That is, you know, pretending that

the very good, you know, your answer is an answer. It's not an answer. Well, why did they sue? Why did they

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