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The landmark jury verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles held Meta and YouTube responsible for harms linked not just to content but the deliberate design of addictive platform features, signaling a major shift in tech accountability,
In this commentary published in San Francisco Chronicle, CIGI Research Director, Aaron Shull argues that this verdict isn’t just about Meta and YouTube, but also a message to other platform companies that the era of plausible deniability is ending and that policymakers’ regulatory efforts need to move from content moderation toward structural oversight.
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