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Meta and YouTube were already found negligent in a blockbuster social media addiction trial in Los Angeles in March
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Winick predicted that other social media platforms like Snap, which has a younger user base, would likely make "preemptive changes" to align with any changes forced on Meta by the trial.
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Summary
Meta says it faces a trillion-dollar penalty and damage to its advertising model. The states want the court to force Meta to remove "certain addictive design features" from its platforms, Instagram and Facebook. During her opening statements on Tuesday, California's deputy attorney general, Megan O'Neill, said that Meta is choosing profit over safety, hiding the "reality" of under-13s on its platforms, and that its business model is to "hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data, and then hide the truth from the public. "This trial is potentially the end of social media as they know it," Kate Winick, a principal analyst at Forrester, said. "Any verdict against Meta would set a massive precedent," Winick added.