Actually Meta and Google might have a tough time on appeal. The jury found as a matter of fact that:
1) the platforms were designed to cause addiction in children
2) the plaintiff became addicted as a child.
3) the plaintiff was injured and suffered damages as a result of the addiction.
Meta and Google are going to have to prove a legal error. The findings of fact by the jury are not subject to appeal.
Dopamine is a drug.
Social media knows what to push and to whom to trigger a dopamine rush and crafts their individual feeds to do it.
That’s intent and culpability.