Kids & smartphones: The smart solution

A jury in California, recently, did something courts rarely do: it looked at the internet, and saw, not a medium, but a machine. It found Meta and YouTube negligent – holding that infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendation were not harmless conveniences, but engineered compulsions that harmed young users’ mental health. The damages were modest. The meaning was not.

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For the first time, the architecture blinked.

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