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As Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube addictive design trial looms, evidentiary records emerge

By Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes ( December 23, 2025, 23:02 GMT | Comment) -- With landmark trials against Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snap and YouTube due to begin in late January in Los Angeles on allegations that the platforms' addictive design is responsible for a teen mental health crisis in the United States, the actual evidentiary record that state and federal juries will use to decide the cases is coming into focus. Amid the vast evidentiary record in the cases brought by individual plaintiffs, states and school systems, judges are increasingly unsealing documents that detail the evidence behind the various plaintiffs' claims.In 2017, executives at Snap were stoked about the number of young teens who could not skip a day without posting something to Snapchat, called a “Snapstreak” on the platform....

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