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What does the meta and YouTube verdict mean for social media in the UK?

A California jury has found meta and YouTube liable in a case that accused them of building intentionally addictive platforms.

Here in the UK, the government is consulting on whether to ban children from using social media.

Australia and Spain have already implemented similar bans,

and France has backed a ban for under 15s.

So are the social media giants facing a reckoning,

and should the government intervene in our kids' social media use?

I'm Anusha Kellyan, and this is Daily Politics from the New

Statesman and I'm joined by Hannah Barnes. Hi Hannah. Hi, Anish. So you've been writing about this today

in a great piece that all our listeners and viewers should go and check out on the New Statesman website.

Can you just give us an overview of what the court found? So this was a case about a young woman

called Kaylee.

That's all we know.

Her identity is protected a little bit.

She's 20 years old.

And she says that she suffered from poor mental health for many years because of social media.

Now, Snap, which owns Snapchat and TikTok, settled before this case even went to court.

So in court was Meta, who own Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and Google, in their capacity as owners of YouTube.

And Kaylee described in court and her lawyers described that she'd first gone on to YouTube age six.

She first went on to Instagram at nine and she first had depression and anxiety around 10 years

old.

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