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Meta’s legal losses signal that courts are finally willing to treat social media’s psychological harms as actionable injuries rather than inevitable trade-offs of free services, which could either genuinely protect young users or simply shift the burden of addiction and exploitation from platforms to parents and insurers. This represents the inflection point where regulatory capture through “innovation” rhetoric collapses—not because the technology changed, but because the evidence of intentional design-for-engagement finally overcame Big Tech’s legal immunity narrative.