Meta and YouTube face landmark trial over youth addiction claims as TikTok settles with 19-year-old plaintiff

A landmark case accusing some of the biggest social media platforms in the world of deliberately getting their users addicted kicked off Tuesday in Los Angeles – with Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube headed for trial as TikTok agreed at the last minute to settle with the plaintiff.

Jury selection begins this week in California Superior Court after a 19-year-old woman identified only as “KGM” accused the tech giants of designing their algorithms to hook users, harming their mental health.

The case is considered a test for how hundreds of similar suits that youths, school districts and state governments have filed against social media companies could unfold. Taking a page from a past generation’s slew of successful suits against big tobacco, plaintiffs say social media companies created addictive products that led to personal injury and other problems.

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