{"id":1028704,"date":"2026-08-14T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028704"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:58:44","slug":"jury-selection-begins-in-meta-youth-harms-trial-in-california-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/jury-selection-begins-in-meta-youth-harms-trial-in-california-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins in Meta youth harms trial in California federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection began Wednesday in Meta&#8217;s federal trial over claims its platforms have harmed youth mental health and also track children in violation of federal law. <\/p>\n<p>The trial scheduled to begin next week is expected to last six to eight weeks. Meta faces 29 states in the federal multidistrict lawsuit filed in 2023, but the Oakland trial will only include the first four &#8211; California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>Eight states, including Tennessee where a trial is ongoing, filed lawsuits in their own state courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection began Wednesday in Meta&#8217;s federal trial over claims its platforms have harmed youth mental health and also track children in violation of federal law. The trial scheduled to begin next week is expected to last six to eight weeks. Meta faces 29 states in the federal multidistrict lawsuit filed in 2023, but the Oakland trial will only include the first four &#8211; California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. Eight states, including Tennessee where a trial is ongoing, filed lawsuits in their own state courts.<\/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-1028704","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\/1028704","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=1028704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028730,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028704\/revisions\/1028730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}