YouTube settles ahead of California’s second social-media addiction trial
A month before a Los Angeles jury was due to hear a Florida teenager’s case, Google quietly stepped out of it, leaving Meta, Snap and TikTok to argue the rest.
Google’s YouTube has settled with a teenage plaintiff weeks before he was due to face the company in court, removing itself from the second bellwether trial in California’s sprawling social-media addiction litigation.
Lawyers for the plaintiff confirmed the settlement on June 23, a little over a month before the Los Angeles trial was scheduled to begin on July 27. The terms were not disclosed.
The plaintiff, identified in court filings by the initials R.K.C., is a teenager from Florida who alleges that compulsive use of social media contributed to anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts for which he continues to receive treatment.
His case was selected as a bellwether, one of a handful chosen to test how juries respond to the...
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