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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Dan Milmo and Robert Booth

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

Mark Zuckerberg on a street surrounded by photographers
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg could face thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts. Photograph: Jill Connelly/Getty Images

The young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social media she became addicted to.

“I can’t, it’s too hard to be without it,” Kaley, now 20, told a jury at Los Angeles’ superior court. This week, five men and seven women handed down a verdict on the design of two of the world’s most popular apps that vindicated Kaley’s position.

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