Social Media Trial Challenges Tech’s Denials: California Brief

Social Media Addiction Trial Kicks Off

Facebook, Google and other tech giants will have to convince a jury they do not build products deliberately to get kids addicted to social media, Madlin Mekelburg and Maia Spoto report.

Company executives including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will answer accusations as part of a trial in Los Angeles that’s drawing comparisons to Big Tobacco’s reckoning with consumer addiction three decades ago.

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, along with Google’s YouTube, are at the center of the trial, and Zuckerberg is expected to testify as early as next week. The case will serve as a ...