{"id":52636,"date":"2026-01-31T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/what-to-know-about-the-jury-trials-of-meta-snap-tiktok-and-youtube\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:04:49","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-jury-trials-of-meta-snap-tiktok-and-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/what-to-know-about-the-jury-trials-of-meta-snap-tiktok-and-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts have claimed social media is intentionally addictive and harmful<\/p>\n<p>Social media companies will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/27\/social-media-trial-meta-tiktok-youtube\">answer to a jury<\/a> \u2013 for the first time \u2013 for allegations that their products are intentionally addictive and harmful to young users\u2019 mental health. Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts sued Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube, leading to a series of landmark trials that began this week. Jury selection in the first case started on Tuesday in Los Angeles court.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> is among the big tech CEOs who are expected to testify. Both sides are likely to bring in experts to hash out the science behind alleged addiction to social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jan\/31\/what-to-know-trials-meta-snap-tiktok-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts have claimed social media is intentionally addictive and harmful Social media companies will have to answer to a jury \u2013 for the first time \u2013 for allegations that their products are intentionally addictive and harmful to young users\u2019 mental health. Hundreds of parents, teens and school districts sued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}