LA jury found Meta and Google built addictive platforms in March

Campaigners welcomed Meta and YouTube's defeat in the landmark case In March, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google deliberately built addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman's mental health. The 20-year-old woman, known as Kaley, sued Meta (owner of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook) and Google (owner of YouTube) over her childhood addiction to social media. She was awarded $6m (£4.5m). Speaking at the time of the verdict, both Meta and Google said they disagreed with