In this episode of DigiPod on Dawn News English, Usama Khilji speaks to technology policy lawyer Hassan Niazi about a major US case involving Meta and Google, where social media companies faced liability over allegedly addictive platform design and harm to young users.
Are Social Media Apps Addicting Children?
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