Get ready for more big tech lawsuits about design, not content
- Mar 21
- 1 min read
COLOMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — The complaint in this trial draws analogies to cigarettes and casinos to allege that the teenagers represented by the suit “are the direct victims of the intentional product design choices made by each Defendant.”
A twenty-year-old plaintiff identified as “KGM” took the stand, testifying that she started using social media around age six, and it “made me give up a lot—my hobbies and old interests. It prevented me from making friends, because I was on my phone at school. It caused me to compare myself to other people, and that made me feel very depressed.”
The case was chosen as a test to represent the approximately sixteen hundred plaintiffs, spanning three hundred and fifty families and two hundred and fifty school districts, with similar claims.
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