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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina by Dinarvan.

Now, it's a case which pitted the world's biggest tech platforms

against a 20-year-old woman known as Kaylee,

who argued that their apps and sites,

Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube,

were all created to be addictive.

Well, a few hours ago in a landmark decision,

a jury in Los Angeles found META and Google liable for causing her

addiction and harming her mental health. She's been awarded $3 million in compensatory damages

and then a further $3 million in punitive damages. Well, in the past hour, Kaylee's lawyer,

Mark Lanier gave this reaction to reporters outside the court.

This message is one that's important to Kaylee and her family, but it's a very great importance to a generation of people who have been affected.

Well, our reporter, Reagan Morris, was outside the courtroom too, and I asked her earlier

to explain the findings of the jury.

The jury found META and Google, the parent companies of Instagram and YouTube, overwhelmingly

negligent.

There was a lot of speculation.

You know, we've been waiting here for over a week

for this and people kind of thought maybe Instagram would be at fault, but not YouTube,

because she didn't seem to use it as well as much. And they did divide some of that blame

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