{"id":369259,"date":"2026-03-28T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369259\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:20:14","slug":"is-this-big-techs-big-tobacco-event-groundbreaking-meta-google-verdict-could-be-gamechanger-for-eu-and-irish-watchdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369259\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Big Tech&#8217;s \u2018big tobacco\u2019 event? Groundbreaking Meta\/ Google verdict could be gamechanger for EU and Irish watchdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nUS jury finding tech giants are liable for harm caused to a woman who says she became addicted to their platforms could signal turning point in American public opinion\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amy Neville, mother of Alexander, Mary Rodee, mother of Riley Basford, lawyer Laura Marquez-Garrett, and CEO of Heat Initiative Sarah Gardneroutside the court after the jury found Meta and Google liable in a test case accusing Meta and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health through addictive social media platforms, in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday.  Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IA-TRIAL (129).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Amy Neville, mother of Alexander, Mary Rodee, mother of Riley Basford, lawyer Laura Marquez-Garrett, and CEO of Heat Initiative Sarah Gardneroutside the court after the jury found Meta and Google liable in a test case accusing Meta and Google&#8217;s YouTube of harming children&#8217;s mental health through addictive social media platforms, in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday.  Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meta and Google\u2019s landmark loss in a California civil jury case last week could be a significant boost for Irish and European regulators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It may result in authorities such as Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n and the Data Protection Commission coming under less pressure, with fewer direct threats from US bodies over travel and visas, than was being proposed by US lawmakers such as Secretary Of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US jury finding tech giants are liable for harm caused to a woman who says she became addicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,969,2244,1711,61,542,60,2597,1226,774,6116],"class_list":["post-369259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-google","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-paschal-donohoe","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}