{"id":991536,"date":"2026-02-12T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991536"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:25:13","slug":"youtube-argues-it-isnt-social-media-in-landmark-tech-addiction-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/youtube-argues-it-isnt-social-media-in-landmark-tech-addiction-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube argues it isn&#8217;t social media in landmark tech addiction trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube argued on Tuesday that it was not social media and was not addictive, on the second day of opening statements in a landmark social media addiction trial. <\/p>\n<p>YouTube, its lawyers said, is an entertainment platform more like Netflix than a social network like Facebook. People use the video streaming app to learn how to cook, knit and become pop stars, not endlessly scroll, they added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not trying to get in your brain and rewire it,&#8221; Luis Li, YouTube&#8217;s lawyer, said of the app&#8217;s video recommendation algorithm. &#8220;It&#8217;s just asking you what you like to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube argued on Tuesday that it was not social media and was not addictive, on the second day of opening statements in a landmark social media addiction trial. YouTube, its lawyers said, is an entertainment platform more like Netflix than a social network like Facebook. People use the video streaming app to learn how to cook, knit and become pop stars, not endlessly scroll, they added. &#8220;It&#8217;s not trying to get in your brain and rewire it,&#8221; Luis Li, YouTube&#8217;s lawyer, said of the app&#8217;s video recommendation algorithm. &#8220;It&#8217;s just asking you what you like to watch.&#8221;<\/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-991536","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\/991536","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=991536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}