By Mike Swift ( August 20, 2026, 21:43 GMT | Insight) -- With the addictive-design trial between Meta Platforms and 29 states suspended in Oakland, California, due to an ill juror, lawyers for Meta and the states battled over the company's proposed limitations to the testimony of Jason Sattizahn, a former researcher and whistleblower who has testified in trials against Meta in New Mexico and Tennessee. "They are so intent on hiding this information from the public that they are scrubbing it from their internal documents," a lawyer for the State of Colorado told US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.The addictive-design trial between 29 states and Meta Platforms was suspended Thursday due to a sick juror, but lawyers battled over the states' allegation that Meta is "scrubbing" its records to hide how in-house lawyers improperly pressured internal researchers to change their findings about social media harms....
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