Trial Begins in California Court Over Social Media Link to Addiction

A Los Angeles jury is poised to consider a central question in the debate over social media and teenage welfare: Are platforms such as Instagram and TikTok causing mental-health disorders? A personal-injury trial begins over a young woman’s claim that social-media platforms built products that fostered addiction in adolescents and caused her a host of mental-health problems.

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