"Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is to be called to testify Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom by lawyers out to prove social media is dangerously addictive by design to young, vulnerable minds. YouTube and Meta -- the parent company of Instagram and Facebook -- are defendants in a blockbuster trial that could set a legal precedent regarding whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children."
"Rival lawyers made opening remarks to jurors this week, with an attorney for YouTube insisting that the Google-owned video platform was neither intentionally addictive nor technically social media. "It's not social media addiction when it's not social media and it's not addiction," YouTube lawyer Luis Li told the 12 jurors during his opening remarks. The civil trial in California state court centers on allegations that a 20-year-old woman, identified as Kaley G.M., suffered severe mental harm after becoming addicted to social media as a child."
A civil trial in California alleges that YouTube and Meta deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children and seeks legal precedent on that claim. The plaintiff is a 20-year-old woman identified as Kaley G.M. who began using YouTube at six, Instagram at 11, and later Snapchat and TikTok. Plaintiffs' lawyers say the companies engineered addiction in young people's brains to boost user numbers and profits. YouTube's lawyer argued the platform is not social media and denied intentional addiction, asserting the plaintiff is not addicted to YouTube. Adam Mosseri is scheduled to testify Wednesday.
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