The Social Media Addiction Trial Explained

This trial is the first time in American legal history that a jury gets to look inside these companies and decide whether the design choices that shape billions of people’s daily lives were made responsibly. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the actual legal question on the table. The LA case is the opening act. Behind it sits a pipeline of more than 1,500 similar personal injury lawsuits, a parallel federal MDL in Oakland with school districts as plaintiffs, actions from more than 40 state attorneys general, and a separate New Mexico case focused specifically on child sexual exploitation. Whatever happens in that LA courtroom over the next six to eight weeks sets the temperature for all of it.