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The civil case alleges that a now 20-year-old plaintiff became addicted to social media because they say tech giants deliberately created addictive products.
Kaylee has said that in her childhood, using social media had led to mental health issues.
And today we will talk about how the engineering and the algorithms led to this case here.
Now, this is important because not only are we going to hear from her for the first time, we're also going to see her posts, which... That's Fox Business Network's Kelly Saberi outside the court in L.A.
Zuckerberg's testimony will be the centerpiece of a massive trial that alleges that Zuckerberg's Meta platforms, like Instagram, prioritize profit over the safety of minors.
This particular lawsuit has been brought on by plaintiff KGM, a now 20-year-old named Kaylee, who says that Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube knowingly designed addictive features like autoplay and infinite scroll that harmed her mental health.
The parent companies of Snapchat and TikTok settled before the trial began.
We were expecting to hear from whistleblowers and experts today, but now the jury has been dismissed.
We found out that one of the jurors has been hospitalized since Sunday.
They say that he might not be able to walk.
So the judge and the defense and the plaintiffs decided that what they will do is if he or she does not return tomorrow, an alternate will take their place.