Meta’s latest courtroom losses expose a potential hole in social media’s strongest defense

Meta lost two jury verdicts, reviving a theory that social media’s “addictive design” may fall outside Section 230 protection.

Plaintiffs argued features like infinite scroll and notifications are company-made products, not protected publishing choices about user posts.

The verdicts are still appealable and do not yet establish a broad new rule for the industry.

Still, they could open the door to more lawsuits targeting platform design decisions rather than user-generated content.