What The Meta And Google Social Media Addiction Case Mean For Users?

Content warning: This article contains references to child sexual abuse, eating disorders and suicide

A landmark social media addiction lawsuit in the US has set an uncomfortable precedent for the platforms that raised a generation this week. After more than 40 hours of deliberation, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google were negligent in the design of their platforms — and that Instagram and YouTube were specifically built to be addictive to young users, without adequate…