{"id":70002,"date":"2026-03-25T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/why-meta-and-youtube-lawsuit-could-trigger-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:03:15","slug":"why-meta-and-youtube-lawsuit-could-trigger-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/why-meta-and-youtube-lawsuit-could-trigger-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meta and YouTube lawsuit could trigger the \u2018end of social media as we know it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark lawsuit against tech giants Meta and YouTube, a jury found the companies negligent in causing harm to the plaintiff, a young woman, and failing to warn users about the dangers of their social media apps. Tech journalist Jacob Ward explains why this case opens a \u201ccan of worms\u201d when it comes to suing technology companies for social media addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark lawsuit against tech giants Meta and YouTube, a jury found the companies negligent in causing harm to the plaintiff, a young woman, and failing to warn users about the dangers of their social media apps. Tech journalist Jacob Ward explains why this case opens a \u201ccan of worms\u201d when it comes to &#8230; <a title=\"Why Meta and YouTube lawsuit could trigger the \u2018end of social media as we know it\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/why-meta-and-youtube-lawsuit-could-trigger-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Meta and YouTube lawsuit could trigger the \u2018end of social media as we know it\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}