A California jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued YouTube over her childhood “addiction” to social media.
Jurors found that Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and Google, owner of YouTube, intentionally built addictive social media platforms that harmed the 20-year old’s mental health, according to the BBC.
The woman, known as Kaley, was awarded $3 million in a result that is likely to have implications for hundreds of similar cases now winding their way through U.S. courts.
Meta and Google said separately that they disagreed with the verdict and would both appeal.
“Teen mental health is profoundly complex and cannot be linked to a single app,” Meta said.
FMI Google it. 😅
