A landmark jury verdict holding Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive threatens to put the social networking companies in the same category as Big Tobacco and opioid makers — a potential crack in their shield from legal responsibility for what happens on their platforms.

Meta Platforms Inc. today began laying off hundreds of employees, with the company’s Reality Labs virtual reality division hit the hardest.

A jury found that Meta Platforms Inc. misled New Mexico teenagers about the safety of its social networks, even when it knew platforms like Facebook and Instagram had become breeding grounds for sexual predators.

The ‘Outnumbered’ panel discusses the New Mexico lawsuit accusing Meta of failing to protect children from online predators.

Americans' views on Trump soured significantly with regard to his stewardship over the economy and the cost of living, as gasoline prices have surged.