A Los Angeles jury will soon rule in a landmark case regarding social media’s impact on present society, and its future. The plaintiff, known only as K.G.M., is lodging a personal-injury case against Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, claiming their products caused a series of mental health problems during her teenage years, ranging from body dysmorphia to suicidal ideation, addiction, anxiety, and depression.
A case like this isn’t surprising, and the plaintiff wouldn’t be the first person to feel as though a new technology causes distress — one wonders if K.G.M. would have also sued the designers of the first glass mirrors in the 1st century CE.
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