{"id":991158,"date":"2026-02-10T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991158"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:56:50","slug":"landmark-case-on-social-medias-impact-on-mental-health-in-us-court-now-why-a-20-yr-old-has-sued-insta-yt-fb-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/landmark-case-on-social-medias-impact-on-mental-health-in-us-court-now-why-a-20-yr-old-has-sued-insta-yt-fb-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark case on social media&#8217;s impact on mental health in US court now: Why a 20-yr-old has sued Insta, YT, FB, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California state court is set to begin hearing a case on Monday over whether Instagram and YouTube harmed a woman&#8217;s mental health through addictive app design. A 20-year-old woman filed a lawsuit against the parent company of key social media applications like Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet&#8217;s Google, which owns YouTube, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to court filings, she claimed that the attention-grabbing design of the platforms got her addicted to them at a young age, and that the apps fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts, which led her to seek to hold the companies liable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California state court is set to begin hearing a case on Monday over whether Instagram and YouTube harmed a woman&#8217;s mental health through addictive app design. A 20-year-old woman filed a lawsuit against the parent company of key social media applications like Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet&#8217;s Google, which owns YouTube, Reuters reported. According to court filings, she claimed that the attention-grabbing design of the platforms got her addicted to them at a young age, and that the apps fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts, which led her to seek to hold the companies liable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991158","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}