{"id":999151,"date":"2026-03-25T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999151"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:14:53","slug":"social-media-addiction-trial-jury-struggling-to-agree-on-google-or-meta-what-happens-if-a-consensus-isnt-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/social-media-addiction-trial-jury-struggling-to-agree-on-google-or-meta-what-happens-if-a-consensus-isnt-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media addiction trial: Jury struggling to agree on Google or Meta, what happens if a consensus isn&#8217;t reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jury in Los Angeles has told the presiding judge that it is struggling to reach a unanimous decision against one of the two defendants in a landmark social media addiction trial. The defendants are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp-parent company Meta and YouTube, and both tech giants are facing charges for allegedly impacting the mental health of young people through their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by news agency Reuters, the jury, which has been deliberating for over a week, sent word to Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl this week that it is having difficulty coming to a consensus on one of the defendants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jury in Los Angeles has told the presiding judge that it is struggling to reach a unanimous decision against one of the two defendants in a landmark social media addiction trial. The defendants are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp-parent company Meta and YouTube, and both tech giants are facing charges for allegedly impacting the mental health of young people through their platforms. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the jury, which has been deliberating for over a week, sent word to Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl this week that it is having difficulty coming to a consensus on one [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999151","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=999151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}