{"id":1029702,"date":"2026-08-19T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029702"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:33:43","slug":"meta-trial-over-facebook-instagrams-impact-on-young-users-begins-in-us-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/meta-trial-over-facebook-instagrams-impact-on-young-users-begins-in-us-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta trial over Facebook, Instagram\u2019s impact on young users begins in US court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of states suing Meta Platforms over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harmed young users&#8217; mental health began making its case on Tuesday in California federal court, in a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet. <\/p>\n<p>Megan O&#8217;Neill, a deputy California attorney general, told the eight-person jury in Oakland, California, that Meta&#8217;s business model was to &#8220;hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data, and then hide the truth from the public.&#8221; &#8220;It worked especially well for kids,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of states suing Meta Platforms over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harmed young users&#8217; mental health began making its case on Tuesday in California federal court, in a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet. Megan O&#8217;Neill, a deputy California attorney general, told the eight-person jury in Oakland, California, that Meta&#8217;s business model was to &#8220;hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data, and then hide the truth from the public.&#8221; &#8220;It worked especially well for kids,&#8221; she added.<\/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-1029702","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\/1029702","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=1029702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029721,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029702\/revisions\/1029721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}