Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial - The New York Times

A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia KangRyan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from Washington, Ryan Mac from the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County and Eli Tan from San Francisco. The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wednesday, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being. Meta and YouTube must pay $3 million in compensatory damages for pain and suffering and other financial burdens. Meta is responsible for 70 percent of that cost and YouTube for the remainder. The bellwether case, which was brought by a now 20-year-old woman identified as K.G.M., had accused social media companies of creating products as addictive as cigarettes or digi

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