Beige Luciano-Adams

Parents who lost children to viral ‘choking games’ hope social media companies will be held accountable, as the debate over safety versus free speech continues.

Attorneys say more internal documents will show companies designed platforms to be addictive, and the teen suing broadens the picture of who’s at risk.

Jurors agreed with a California woman that the companies were responsible for psychological harms she suffered after becoming addicted to their platforms.

The plaintiff says algorithms prey on vulnerable youth, while companies say family circumstances and genetics drove the woman’s struggles.

As a landmark social media trial winds down, lawyers engage in final, heated skirmishes over the woman’s addiction narrative.

A former therapist testified that multiple factors, not just YouTube and Instagram, contributed to the young woman’s mental health struggles.

In the case of a California woman, now 20, allegedly harmed by social media, defense attorneys for Meta and Instagram present two witnesses from her school.

Two former senior leaders said the company prioritized ‘power and growth’ and targeted teens.

In a historic tech trial, an expert said social media addiction has the same effect on the brain as substance disorders.

The young woman known as K.G.M. gives a face to a generational mental health crisis that has accompanied the rise of social media.

Parents who lost children to viral ‘choking games’ hope social media companies will be held accountable, as the debate over safety versus free speech continues.

Attorneys say more internal documents will show companies designed platforms to be addictive, and the teen suing broadens the picture of who’s at risk.

Jurors agreed with a California woman that the companies were responsible for psychological harms she suffered after becoming addicted to their platforms.

The plaintiff says algorithms prey on vulnerable youth, while companies say family circumstances and genetics drove the woman’s struggles.

As a landmark social media trial winds down, lawyers engage in final, heated skirmishes over the woman’s addiction narrative.

A former therapist testified that multiple factors, not just YouTube and Instagram, contributed to the young woman’s mental health struggles.

In the case of a California woman, now 20, allegedly harmed by social media, defense attorneys for Meta and Instagram present two witnesses from her school.

Two former senior leaders said the company prioritized ‘power and growth’ and targeted teens.

In a historic tech trial, an expert said social media addiction has the same effect on the brain as substance disorders.

The young woman known as K.G.M. gives a face to a generational mental health crisis that has accompanied the rise of social media.