Social media giants to face trial over youth addiction claims Four major technology companies will stand trial in January over allegations they deliberately designed their platforms to addict young users, after a Los Angeles judge rejected their final attempts to dismiss the cases on November 6. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl denied summary judgment motions from Meta, ByteDance, Alphabet, and Snap, allowing claims to proceed that their platforms—Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat—were engineered with addictive features that harm youth mental health. #SocialMediaGiantsMustFaceTrialOverYouth #AddictionClaims #YouthMentalHealth #TechLitigation https://www.perplexity.ai/...