One of the most significant conversations in the last decade about the creator economy just happened in a courtroom in California.

All right. We have breaking news for you. A jury in California has just found tech giants meta and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial.

The jury found both companies liable for negligence and failure to warn, saying that these

companies did design their apps to be addictive for young kids. This is a real bell weather case,

which was brought by a now 20-year-old woman. She's 20 years old now. She's only identified as

KGM. And she had accused the social media companies of creating products as addictive as cigarettes,

our digital casinos. What this says is that social media sites or apps can cause personal injuries.

So look out for similar cases in the future. This is enormous news.

So for all of us who have built a career in the creator economy or uploading to these platforms,

this can have significant impacts on what happens next.

So we're going to talk about what happened in this case.

We're also going to talk about what this could mean for the future of the creator economy.

Welcome to this episode of the Colin and Samir show.

All right, so let's just bring everyone up to speed.

If you missed this in the news this week,

let's bring it up to speed with exactly what happened

and what we know.

So there was a plaintiff.

It goes by the name KGM.

We don't know her name. But began using social media at age

six and basically came forward with some alleged harms of anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia,

and self-harm ideation based on the platforms, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap.

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