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Terence Corcoran: The political addiction to blaming Big Tech

From OpenAI's ChatGPT in Tumbler Ridge to Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms in California court

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Meta’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg survived another 15 minutes of unwanted media notoriety last week after appearing before a Los Angeles court in what has been described as a landmark jury trial over social media as a cause of “addiction” in children. Zuckerberg testified that while the company designed sites to attract users, there was never any attempt to foster addictive behaviour among youth or anyone else.

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