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Questions & Help Mar 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM

Jury to begin deliberations in landmark social media addiction trial

Posted by Marginallyhuman

https://news.sky.com/story/jury-to-begin-deliberations-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-13519129
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fxkatt Mar 14, 2026 +75
>*The jurors will not decide whether specific content on the platforms was harmful. Instead, they will decide whether social media companies were negligent when they created and tweaked their products to encourage people to spend more time on them.* That's putting it mildly. I think the word the addicted who are contesting these monopolies, would call it manipulation--or planned addiction.
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NicksBirthdayParty Mar 14, 2026 +20
Cigarette Companies have entered the chat.
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joestaff Mar 14, 2026 +123
It's wild that I don't even think addiction is the worst part of social media.
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Juunlar Mar 14, 2026 +60
All the other shit happens because people are emotionally addicted. The disinformation loop, specifically
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HollaWho Mar 14, 2026 +20
Rage bait legitimately destroys people’s lives and relationships
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WilliamInBlack Mar 14, 2026 +63
‘Addiction’ almost undersells it. The bigger question is what happens when an industry built on attention learns it can monetize insecurity, outrage, and compulsive behavior at scale.
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Fallouttgrrl Mar 14, 2026 +17
Well Trump certainly shows one outcome 
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jrsinhbca Mar 14, 2026 +17
The apps were designed to keep people engaged. It was intentional and part of Metas corporate culture.
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stars_mcdazzler Mar 14, 2026 +13
The technology that was specifically designed to keep users engaged, consuming information, and was carefully crafted to exploit our disposition to keep scrolling? Oh how could anyone POSSIBLY get addicted to THAT!
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Scoobydoomed Mar 14, 2026 +13
Watch The Social Dilemma, they show exactly how social media was designed from the very beginning to be addictive.
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Marginallyhuman Mar 14, 2026 +4
Loved/disturbed by, the line that stated every time I was interacting with a social media platform there was a super-computer looking back at me.
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igetproteinfartsHELP Mar 14, 2026 +5
Been watching this too. I read an article which said a girl was spending 16 hours on instagram every day and now this jury will decide if meta is to be blamed. I don't know what to say
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thebirdismybaby Mar 14, 2026 +7
I’m so deeply hopeful big tech loses, but I’m not holding my breath during this administration.
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Kioskwar Mar 14, 2026 +3
I will be stalking this
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AlGAdams Mar 14, 2026 +3
The point of this trail is to push "age verification" systems that will allow corporations and government to more easily track the populations and its opinions.  This "it harms children" BS argument is 1000's of years old and people still fall for it.
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LengthClean Mar 17, 2026 +2
Shutting Social Media from the youth might be the best thing that can happen. Let them make their own decisions. To be swayed by idiots on the left, idiots on the right, and then into a one way rabbit hole is insane.
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btoned Mar 15, 2026
Oh so I'm assuming someone like meta will pay a couple million dollar fine and the day will continue on.
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GuestGulkan Mar 15, 2026
This will just be another "yeah, we see there's a problem, but don't really want to fix it. How can we get back to business as usual without really changing anything?"
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dschinghiskhan Mar 14, 2026 -7
Jury trails are outrageous to begin with. Dupes off the street have no business deciding legal affairs, criminal or civil. Even mediators have to have credentials. A trial over social media addiction is one of the dumbest things I've heard about in my life. It should have never been approved to go to trial.
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Glad-Assist-6230 Mar 15, 2026 +2
Let’s see your credentials that mean it’s your business weigh in on the value of trial by jury?
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dschinghiskhan Mar 15, 2026 -4
I'm just a rube. A dupe with an opinion. On the other hand, my father was a federal judge for 40 years, and he is not a fan of the jury system. That has to count for *something*, though that's his business and not mine. I did serve on a jury once, and I made another juror cry when I hammered it into her that she needed to vote on the merits of the case, and not on the age of the defendant or whether she felt sorry for him. She ended up voting "guilty", while one man voted not guilty "out of principal" because he thought the defendant was too old, and too much of a sympathetic character. We were not responsible for sentencing, however. Our one job was to determine guilt or innocence. I'd also like to point out that the other jurors were *terrible* at taking notes. If you can't take notes and focus on the details, then you should not be judging someone's fate. As for the Meta trial, it shouldn't even be a court case. People have become way too soft these days. And this is not a partisan thing, either. I'm a Democrat myself- just in case you thought I might be some uneducated MAGA moron.
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Glad-Assist-6230 Mar 15, 2026 +1
Solid copypasta material, if that’s what you were going for.
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