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Snap skirts social media addiction trial in US, for now

By Maria Dinzeo ( January 21, 2026, 22:18 GMT | Comment) -- A social-media bellwether trial slated to begin next month in Los Angeles will proceed in a narrower form after Snap Inc. struck a last-minute settlement with one of the plaintiffs. The deal removes a defendant, and a tranche of potentially damaging evidence, from a case that will serve as a proving ground for design-based product liability claims against Big Tech firms that have been accused of deliberately engineering their platforms to be addictive.One defendant will be notably absent next month when social media platforms go on trial over allegations that their intentionally addictive designs fueled a youth mental health crisis....

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