Judge in L.A. Social‑Media Addiction Trial Orders Meta Team to Remove AI Glasses, Warns of Contempt Over Any Recordings
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In a landmark Los Angeles bellwether trial, families and plaintiffs’ lawyers say Meta and Google engineered addictive social media that harmed children, presenting internal documents — including Meta’s "Project Myst" study, messages likening Instagram to a drug and YouTube to a casino, a 2015 goal to increase time spent, and testimony from Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri — to argue the platforms foster problematic use and damaged youths' mental health. Judge Carolyn Kuhl ordered members of Zuckerberg’s team to remove Ray‑Ban Meta AI glasses with cameras, banned any courtroom use of facial‑recognition to identify jurors, and warned that anyone who recorded inside the courtroom must dispose of recordings or face contempt.
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