Meta Guilty Twice Stock Still Soars

Two juries just found Meta guilty in back-to-back trials for knowingly letting predators target kids and designing deliberately addictive features that wrecked a young woman's brain—375 million in New Mexico, 3 million in California. Meta's stock went up five percent after the verdicts because apparently that's pocket change when you're worth 1.5 trillion dollars. But here's the thing that should terrify Silicon Valley: these are the first two wins out of thousands of similar cases coming this year, and courts are finally holding Big Tech accountable for the algorithms and design choices, not just user content.