They Knew. They Did It Anyway. The Meta Trial Nobody Expected.
The Case of the Double Murder
Meta didn't just fail. It failed twice — in completely different directions — and both failures trace back to the same root cause: a company that designed for its own vision instead of its users.
Crime #1: The Metaverse. $40 billion. Legless avatars. A platform nobody asked for, built to solve a problem Wall Street invented. By February 2026, Horizon Worlds was mobile-only and Reality Labs had laid off hundreds.
Crime #2: Platform Design. A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable for addictive design that harmed children. The damages were $6M — a rounding…
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