YouTube CEO Neal Mohan responds to addiction lawsuit, says the solution is ‘we should be thinking about…’

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has responded to a landmark lawsuit in California in which the platform, along with Meta – the parent company of Instagram – was sued by a young woman who alleged that YouTube is addictive and harmful. Mohan said that while the answer lies in making the digital world safer for children, not shutting them out of it entirely.

According to a The New York Times interview (published after a jury found YouTube and Meta negligent in addressing addiction), Mohan has laid out a philosophy on how platforms like YouTube should approach the protection of young users.