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World Service,10 Feb 2026,49 mins

Meta and Google are accused of creating "addiction machines"

Newsday

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The outcome of the trial may provide a benchmark for monetary damages that would likely impact thousands of cases brought by other plaintiffs, their families, state prosecutors, and school districts across the United States. In the US, a second dealine to pay a ransom for suspected kidnap victim Nancy Guthrie has passed. She is the mother of high profile American TV presenter Savannah Guthrie has been missing for more than a week. The release of the Epstein documents continues to have an impact on powerful people around the world, in this hour we'll take a look at Epstein's connections to Israel (Photo: Parents who lost children to social media–related harms hold a vigil ahead of a social media addiction trial; Credit:Jill Connelly/Reuters)

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