Hello and welcome to a special episode of the trial UK. I'm Caroline Cheatham.

And I'm Liz Hull. So today we are revisiting a little mini series that we brought you a few weeks ago.

And that was our series called The Trial of

Social Media. And that's because, Liz, in the last few hours, what happened in L.A. is the jury that

were deciding on that case in L.A. around whether social media firms like Meta and like YouTube knew that what they were making

and what they were enticing young people to be involved in and to be connected to

was harmful because it was addictive.

It was a really interesting argument that we're going to come to shortly

in terms of what the lawyers were arguing and how they got round a very old piece of legislation,

which has always put a halt on these kinds of cases. But the lawyers argued something very,

very different. Effectively, it was called Big Tech's

tobacco moment. And in the last few hours, the jury have come back and said, yeah, they're liable.

They knew what they were designing was addictive. And Kaylee, KGM, as she's been known in this case, has won her case.

Yeah, so it's just a reminder, I suppose.

We talked about this, the week that Mark Zuckerberg matters, Chief Executive, gave evidence, didn't we, Caroline?

That was why we brought that episode to you because it's such a, well,

what the Americans call a bellwether case. We'd call it a test case probably because Kaylee was

the first of a series of teenagers, young people, schools, whole communities that have lodged

claims against Meta and YouTube saying that they knew that their social media

sites were addictive and tech built into social media. So the algorithm, the infinite scrolling,

the likes, all were basically designed to keep kids on social media for as long as possible.

And that's what causes the harm.

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