CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri are set to testify in front of a jury.
The trial marks the first time major tech giants will face a jury over these allegations. The case is being heard in the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County, with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and video sharing platform YouTube moving forward as defendants.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri are expected to take the witness stand during the trial, with Zuckerberg testifying Feb. 18 and Mosseri testifying on Feb. 11.Social platforms Snapchat and TikTok were previously named in the lawsuit but reached settlements with the plaintiffs last month. The case centers on a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old under the initials K.G.M., along with other plaintiffs who claim the platforms were designed to be addictive, which they claim ultimately led to mental health issues including "Borrowing heavily from the behavioral and neurobiological techniques used by slot machines and exploited by the cigarette industry, defendants deliberately embedded in their products an array of design features aimed at maximizing youth engagement to drive advertising revenue," the lawsuit claims, pointing to features on social media apps like auto-scrolling."We strongly disagree with these allegations and are confident the evidence will show our longstanding commitment to supporting young people," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News previously, adding that the company has made "meaningful changes" to its services, such as introducing accounts specifically for teenage users. In a statement to ABC News, YouTube also called the allegations untrue, with spokesperson José Castañeda saying in a statement, "Providing young people with a safer, healthier experience has always been core to our work. In collaboration with youth, mental health and parenting experts, we built services and policies to provide young people with age-appropriate experiences, and parents with robust controls."
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