Corporate Readiness for Youth Online Safety: Litigation, Regulation, and Risk Management

This CLE webinar will examine corporate liability and compliance exposure from online harms arising from AI-enabled tools, social platforms, and other digital products. A growing number of claims allege that product features, recommendation systems, and user flows contribute to addiction, exploitation, harassment, deepfakes, and exposure to self-harm content.

The panel will discuss current litigation and enforcement trends, including the impact on claims when minors are foreseeable users. The experts will navigate how youth status can operate as a risk multiplier, anchoring arguments about heightened foreseeability of harm, reduced assumption of risk, and expectations for safety-by-design controls such as age signals, safer defaults, parental controls, and crisis-response mechanisms. The panel will also address the enforcement landscape, including how agencies such as the FTC and state actors increasingly scrutinize representations and product choices affecting user safety.

The panel will cover negligence, wrongful death, and product liability concepts applying to software and AI and UDAP exposure tied to marketing claims, safety disclosures, and UX choices. The experts will also discuss threshold defenses, including Section 230's publisher/speaker boundary, First Amendment themes, and causation arguments emphasizing proximate cause and intervening actors. Finally, the panel will provide best practices to mitigate risk, including safety testing and escalation workflows, governance and documentation, youth-specific safeguards, and vendor risk controls.

Listen as our panel provides practical guidance for identifying online harm liability traps, deploying safety and disclosure controls, and preparing for litigation or enforcement challenges to corporate online tools, products, and platforms.