LOS ANGELES — In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff’s lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users’ attention, likening their features to a Trojan horse.
The plaintiff, identified in court as Kaley and in documents by her initials, K.G.M., is at the center of a bellwether case that could set a legal precedent for whether social media platforms are responsible for causing mental health issues in children.
Her lawsuit accuses social media companies of deliberately designing their platforms to be more addictive to children for the purposes of profit. K.G.M., who was a minor at the time of the incidents outlined in her lawsuit, testified last month that her nearly nonstop use of social media “really affected [her] self-worth.”
“How do you make a child never put down the phone? That’s called the engineering of addiction. They engineered it, they
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