{"id":1022433,"date":"2026-07-21T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022433"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:21:21","slug":"meta-faces-tennessee-trial-over-allegations-instagram-was-designed-to-be-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/meta-faces-tennessee-trial-over-allegations-instagram-was-designed-to-be-addictive\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state&#8217;s claims that Instagram&#8217;s design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several trials in the coming weeks testing allegations that the company&#8217;s social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive. <\/p>\n<p>Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state&#8217;s \u200bconsumer protection law by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use and misleading the public about its safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms faces trial in Tennessee on Monday over the state&#8217;s claims that Instagram&#8217;s design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis, one of several trials in the coming weeks testing allegations that the company&#8217;s social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive. Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state&#8217;s \u200bconsumer protection law by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use and misleading the public about its safety.<\/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-1022433","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\/1022433","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=1022433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022456,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022433\/revisions\/1022456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}