Blockbuster social media trial kicks off

Social media is on trial with jury selection beginning today at the LA Superior Court here behind me in this high-profile case against Meta and YouTube. And this case has massive implications for the industry. This is the first case in a wave of trials [music] on the addictive negative impact of social media on kids and teens, which is drawing comparisons to the attack on big tobacco in the 1990s. The plaintiffs in this first trial are a 19-year-old woman and her mother. They claim social companies knowingl ...