{"id":1022628,"date":"2026-07-21T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022628"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:21:23","slug":"meta-faces-tennessee-trial-did-instagrams-design-make-teens-addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/meta-faces-tennessee-trial-did-instagrams-design-make-teens-addicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces Tennessee trial: Did Instagram&#8217;s design make teens addicted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, the company that owns Instagram, is facing a trial in Tennessee starting Monday over claims that Instagram&#8217;s design is making teenagers addicted to the app. Tennessee says Instagram&#8217;s features are causing a youth mental health crisis by encouraging teens to spend too much time on the platform, according to the Tennessee lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The state has accused Meta of breaking Tennessee&#8217;s consumer protection law by knowingly creating a product that pushes teens into compulsive social media use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms, the company that owns Instagram, is facing a trial in Tennessee starting Monday over claims that Instagram&#8217;s design is making teenagers addicted to the app. Tennessee says Instagram&#8217;s features are causing a youth mental health crisis by encouraging teens to spend too much time on the platform, according to the Tennessee lawsuit. The state has accused Meta of breaking Tennessee&#8217;s consumer protection law by knowingly creating a product that pushes teens into compulsive social media use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022628","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022629,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022628\/revisions\/1022629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}