Clay Calvert

No, thank you very much for having me.

I appreciate the opportunity.

Sure.

So KGM, as you said, is the bellwether test case, really the first of more than a thousand personal injury lawsuits that essentially alleged that social media platforms were designed to hook minors to keep their eyeballs on social media and that that process has caused them multiple harms.

In KGM's case, she's suggesting anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia and other injuries.

So her case is the first one up.

She's a young adult now, but she claims that when she was very young, she started watching on YouTube videos and then basically later used Instagram, ByteDance and the other platforms.

Now, in this particular case, what's important is that ByteDance, which is TikTok and Snapchat, Snap have settled.

So all we have left are really the two biggest companies as we would think of them.

We have Meta, which is Instagram as a defendant, and we have Google, which is YouTube as a defendant.

So those are the two defendants that are in this case that KGM is suing.

That's a really good question.

There's a key question here, and this is what she said.

I'm going to leave it to the jury.

I'm not going to decide this for myself.

And the question really is what caused the harm that KGM says she's suffering?

Is it the content of the videos and the posts that she has seen and watched on social media platforms?

Or is it defects, alleged defects in the design of the platforms themselves?

And by that, we're talking about things like endless scroll notifications, algorithmic delivery of content, image filters.

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