{"id":988330,"date":"2026-01-28T09:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988330"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:39:00","slug":"meta-tiktok-and-youtube-face-landmark-trial-over-youth-addiction-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/meta-tiktok-and-youtube-face-landmark-trial-over-youth-addiction-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, TikTok and YouTube face landmark trial over youth addiction claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms \u2014 Meta&#8217;s Instagram, ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok and Google&#8217;s YouTube \u2014 deliberately addict and harm children. <\/p>\n<p>Jury selection starts this week in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It&#8217;s the first time the companies will argue their case before a jury, and the outcome could have profound effects on their businesses and how they will handle children using their platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms \u2014 Meta&#8217;s Instagram, ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok and Google&#8217;s YouTube \u2014 deliberately addict and harm children. Jury selection starts this week in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It&#8217;s the first time the companies will argue their case before a jury, and the outcome could have profound effects on their businesses and how they will handle children using their platforms.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988330","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=988330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}