A court in New Mexico has ordered social media giant Meta to pay $US567 million to address harms to young people caused by its platforms. In a landmark ruling, the judge likened the company’s Instagram and Facebook social media platforms to factories and described the psychological harm children experience from using them as a form of pollution. University of Toronto associate professor Evan Light joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to talk about the impact of the ruling. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/11744472/m…

Author’s note: Your classic mainstream coverage on yet-another heavy fine for this digital purveyor of click-bait. Just a brief mention of the site being used to facilitate child-trafficing. Oh well, let’s just fine them and let them carry-on whilst the rest of us line-up for our didgital-slave-pass so we can scroll and like kitten videos.