{"id":81730,"date":"2026-03-26T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81730"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:13:36","slug":"big-tech-faces-reckonings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/big-tech-faces-reckonings\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Faces Reckonings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/social-media-lawsuits-meta-818d885e92fd11e000bbfa16dd4fba0c\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">parents<\/a><\/span>, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/facebook-haugen-congress-testimony-1daac7a76ca7bf0b0802cc46e732b51b\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">whistleblowers<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people\u2019s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, juries in two states took their side.\u00a0In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury found both\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-instagram-facebook-trial-social-media-addiction-0e99c9ba6159421720d616f9facd10f0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Meta and YouTube liable<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for harms to children using their services. In\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-facebook-new-mexico-trial-28eabd8ec5f58c1d1ecddc21bb107de7\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">New Mexico,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0a jury determined that Meta knowingly\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-trial-child-sexual-exploitation-5ad9f7bf1ad05bef9d177938e94f0e8b\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">harmed children\u2019s mental health<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774512816\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Big Tech Faces Reckonings\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: For years,\u00a0parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and\u00a0whistleblowers\u00a0have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people\u2019s mental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}