Det var en brutal dag på Wall Street – især for aktier i Meta Platforms, Reddit og Snap. While the Nasdaq dropped 2.4%, shares of the social media firms plunged between 8% and 10% as the implications of Wednesday’s verdict in the social media addiction lawsuit sank in. That verdict, which found Meta og Googles YouTube ansvarlig for uagtsomhed, vedrørte hverken Snap eller Reddit, vel at mærke. Snap havde afgjort før retssagen, og Reddit var aldrig involveret.
Men investorer ser ud til at være mere bekymrede over, hvad den juridiske præcedens betyder for små internetvirksomheder. “This is a hugely consequential decision, not just for these two companies involved, but for social media more generally,” said Jennifer Huddleston, senior fellow in tech policy at the Cato Institute, on The Information’s TITV.
