“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

However, Kuhl ruled that the platforms will have the opportunity to contest opposing experts’ opinions at trial, while reminding social media companies that “ultimately, the important question of causation is one that must be determined by a jury.” The Social Media Victims Law Center noted that only one expert’s testimony was excluded, a licensed clinical psychologist deemed ineligible.

“Bagot’s testimony regarding design features employed on TikTok as well as other social media platforms is directly relevant to the question of whether these design features cause the harms allegedly suffered by KGM,” Kuhl wrote.

This means a jury will have the chance to evaluate Bagot’s opinion that “social media overuse and addiction plays a significant role in causing or exacerbating psychological harm in children and youth, including depression, anxiety and eating disorders, as well as internalizing and externalizing psychotic symptoms.”

The jury will also consider Badger’s insights as a fact witness who shared information about Meta’s internal security studies as a former consultant and researcher for the company. This involves hearing about “her.” Personal Knowledge And Experience Connected To How design flaw But of meta platform can do Reason Injury To minors (As, age verification, reporting processes, beauty filter, public Like matters, infinite scroll, default settings, Personal Message, reels, short term Material, And connect Children with Adult stranger),” as well as “Loss Connected with of meta platform Involved addicted/problematic Use, Worry, Depression, Eat disorder, Body dysmorphia, suicide, self harm, And Sexuality.”

If KGM can convince the jury that it was not harmed by the platforms failing to remove the content, but rather by the companies “designing their platforms to get kids addicted” and “developing algorithms that show kids not what they want to see but what they can’t look away from,” Bergman thinks his case could become a “data point” for “collectively settling similar cases,” he said. Told the Barons.

“He’s similar to a lot of kids in the United States — the harm they’ve suffered and the way their lives have been changed by the deliberate design decisions of social media companies,” Bergman told the Post.