{"id":1016778,"date":"2026-06-25T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016778"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:43:44","slug":"googles-youtube-settles-case-over-social-media-harm-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/25\/googles-youtube-settles-case-over-social-media-harm-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s YouTube settles case over social media harm to children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a minor who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, his lawyers said Tuesday, ahead of a second California trial over social media’s role in the youth mental health crisis. <\/p>\n

The terms of the settlement of \u200bthe state court lawsuit were confidential, the lawyers said on Tuesday. The suit named four defendants – YouTube, Meta’s Instagram, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok – and the remaining three companies are still set to face trial in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a minor who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, his lawyers said Tuesday, ahead of a second California trial over social media’s role in the youth mental health crisis. The terms of the settlement of \u200bthe state court lawsuit were confidential, the lawyers said on Tuesday. The suit named four defendants – YouTube, Meta’s Instagram, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok – and the remaining three companies are still set to face trial in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016801,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016778\/revisions\/1016801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}