LOS ANGELES (CN) — After a monthlong trial, attorneys in a first-of-its kind case over mental health harms to teenagers from social media apps delivered their final arguments to the jury. “When you’re ...
A landmark trial found social media companies liable for designing addictive products. Nicola J Kalk and Ben Carter look at ...
YouTube attorney Luis Li, of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, told jurors in his opening statement, "It is not social media addiction when it’s not social media, and it’s not an addiction." Los ...
LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The former psychotherapist of a California woman suing Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Instagram and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube, claiming a childhood ...
W. Mark Lanier told a jury in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday that YouTube and Instagram were designed to addict kids, like his client, Kaley, who got her first iPhone at age 9. Plaintiff’s ...
A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing. YouTube ...
Meta claims social media addiction isn’t real. Juries disagree Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. I’m hoping futilely for warm spring ...
The world's largest social media companies have been accused of creating "addiction machines" as a landmark trial began in California examining the mental health effects of Instagram and YouTube. In ...