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April 2026

  • Prince Harry, in a dark blue suit and darker tie, gestures mid-speech before a black backdrop decorated with a blue neon light-strip

    ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes landmark suits against major tech companies

  • A woman in a cafe wearing black-framed glasses

    I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

  • Man outside court

    TechScape newsletter
    Landmark losses for Meta and YouTube as big tech misses the point

    Newsletter
  • Girl holding a mobile phone while talking about Australia's social media ban for under-16s

    Two-thirds of under-16s with accounts on Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok kept access despite ban

  • Model Erin O'Connor poses naked in a studio with dramatic lighting and shadows

    ‘Double standards’: Instagram removes Erin O’Connor’s pregnancy photos again

    Model posted pictures of herself naked and ‘in her full power’ to celebrate Mother’s Day, before Meta took them down for breaching nudity guidelines
  • Nicola Jennings on the court rulings against Meta – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on the court rulings against Meta – cartoon

    Mark Zuckerberg’s company and YouTube were the subject of landmark US cases that found they had designed addictive products that harmed young people
  • Social Media TrialsWorkers walk past a display at Meta headquarters on Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    How Meta’s victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

    Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies
  • Mark Zuckerberg on a street surrounded by photographers

    The Saturday read
    ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel

    Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech
  • Mark Zuckerberg attends court in Los Angeles for a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children.

    The Guardian view on social media in the dock: tech bros move fast – society is trying to catch up

    Editorial: Two court cases have shown how companies can be forced to take responsibility for their impact on public health
  • Jonathan Freedland

    At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder

    Jonathan Freedland
    The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightback, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • Van Badham

    It is no fluke that social media platforms are addictive and causing harm. They were designed that way

    Van Badham
    The findings in two US court cases should embarrass anyone who claimed Australia’s social media ban was ‘boomer’ moralising
  • Man departs Capitol room

    ‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co

    With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s
  • A group of women embracing each other on the steps of a court

    Human rights groups cheer ‘watershed’ verdict in social media addiction trial

    As many organizations celebrate outcome, some are skeptical as to what it means for privacy protections

    • Starmer vows to tackle social media’s ‘addictive features’ to protect children

    • The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for children – and the US justice system

      Austin Sarat

    • Law firms investigate possible Australian cases after US jury finds Meta and YouTube designed addictive products

  • a man in a suit walks outside surrounded by a group of people

    Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

    Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder
  • A court in the US has ordered Meta to pay $375m after a jury found that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, enabled harm including child sexual exploitation on its platforms. Lucy Hough speaks to the investigative reporter Katie McQue.

    World news guide
    Big tech reckoning: Meta fined $375m in landmark case – The Latest

    A court in the US has ordered Meta to pay $375m after a jury found that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, enabled harm including child sexual exploitation on its platforms. Lucy Hough speaks to the investigative reporter Katie McQue.
    Video10:50
  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Today in Focus
    Big tech reckoning: Meta ordered to pay $375m in landmark case – The Latest

    A court in the US has ordered Meta to pay $375m after a jury found that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, misled consumers over child safety on its platforms. Lucy Hough speaks to the investigative reporter Katie McQue
    Podcast11:54
  • Man looks

    Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case

    New Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users
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