Like anyone who has kids in this day and age, I am sympathetic to families that must cope with youth depression and anxiety. But the notion that tech companies should be liable for those maladies because the kids and young adults blame their over-consumption of social media apps for their condition is crazy.

Nevertheless, as it goes with creative plaintiffs’ lawyers and their favored jackpot justice jurisdictions, a state jury in Los Angeles found Meta (the corporate owner of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) and YouTube (a Google subsidiary owned by Alphabet) liable for addicting a now 20-year-old woman to their content.

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