{"id":988155,"date":"2026-01-28T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988155"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:57:12","slug":"jury-selection-begins-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/jury-selection-begins-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins in landmark social media addiction trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection begins Tuesday for a landmark trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to addict children. <\/p>\n<p>The case being heard in a California state court in Los Angeles is being called a &#8220;bellwether&#8221; proceeding because its outcome could set the tone for a tidal wave of similar litigation across the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Defendants in the suit are Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta, the tech titans behind YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection begins Tuesday for a landmark trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to addict children. The case being heard in a California state court in Los Angeles is being called a &#8220;bellwether&#8221; proceeding because its outcome could set the tone for a tidal wave of similar litigation across the United States. Defendants in the suit are Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta, the tech titans behind YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.<\/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-988155","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\/988155","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=988155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}