After two jury verdicts against social media companies, Kara Alaimo, a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, has urged parents to re-examine their children's tech use after these companies were found guilty of negligence in designing their platforms. The California jury ordered Meta and YouTube to pay $3 million in compensatory damages plus additional punitive damages to a woman who claimed their platforms were designed to addict her and cause her body dysmorphia, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. This ruling has been widely described as a "Big Tobacco moment" as it found that social networks are harmful and addictive to our kids and could lead to many more lawsuits. Allaimo suggests that parents should talk to their children about these rulings and make changes to how their children use social media. She also suggests that it's ideal not to let kids under age 16 use such social media at all and that it could be difficult to enforce this restriction as all of their friends are on these platforms.