liable

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You may have heard about last week’s twin verdicts against Meta and YouTube, which held the tech companies liable for harms their products inflicted on young people.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Tech giants Meta and YouTube were found to be liable for designing their platforms to be addictive, which harmed a 20-year-old's mental health.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The immediate trigger for Thursday’s fall was fear of a wave of legal judgments against the company after a jury found Meta liable in a social-media addiction case.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Back-to-back rulings this week found Meta liable for factors such as failing to protect children from exploitation and operating addictive platforms.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

I saw right away that if I didn’t say something to ease Mama’s mind she was liable to start laying down the law about my going to the bottoms.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls