{"id":1022523,"date":"2026-07-21T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022523"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:38:02","slug":"meta-faces-trial-after-claims-of-instagram-purposefully-designed-to-be-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/meta-faces-trial-after-claims-of-instagram-purposefully-designed-to-be-addictive\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces trial after claims of Instagram purposefully 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 consumer 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 consumer 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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022523","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=1022523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022530,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022523\/revisions\/1022530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}