{"id":987924,"date":"2026-01-27T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987924"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:00:00","slug":"meta-tiktok-youtube-to-stand-trial-on-youth-addiction-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/meta-tiktok-youtube-to-stand-trial-on-youth-addiction-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, TikTok, YouTube to stand trial on youth addiction claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Meta Platforms, TikTok and YouTube will face courtroom scrutiny this week over allegations that their platforms are fueling a youth mental health crisis, \u200das the national debate about kids&#8217; screen time enters a new phase. <\/p>\n<p>The bellwether trial in California Superior Court, Los Angeles County involves a 19-year-old woman from California, identified as \u2060K.G.M., who says she became addicted to the companies&#8217; platforms at a young age because of their attention-grabbing design, according to court filings. She alleges the apps fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts and is seeking to hold the companies liable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Meta Platforms, TikTok and YouTube will face courtroom scrutiny this week over allegations that their platforms are fueling a youth mental health crisis, \u200das the national debate about kids&#8217; screen time enters a new phase. The bellwether trial in California Superior Court, Los Angeles County involves a 19-year-old woman from California, identified as \u2060K.G.M., who says she became addicted to the companies&#8217; platforms at a young age because of their attention-grabbing design, according to court filings. She alleges the apps fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts and is seeking to hold the companies liable.<\/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-987924","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\/987924","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=987924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}