15 October 2026
Courts increasingly hold platform design liable, not just user speech
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- Juries have recently found Meta and YouTube liable based on how their products were designed.
- New Mexico has imposed penalties under similar reasoning, signaling a broader legal pattern.
- The same legal approach is now reportedly being applied to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, under consumer protection law.
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PlatformerCasey Newton