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At US Meta, YouTube addictive design trial, grieving parents a powerful court presence

By Mike Swift ( February 18, 2026, 00:00 GMT | Comment) -- During the US addictive design trial against Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube, grieving parents who lined up as early as midnight outside the Los Angeles courthouse to get one of the precious few seats for the public have been as central a presence in the courtroom as the lawyers for each side and the journalists who fill the back of the room. Sitting just feet away and in full view of the jury, the parents — mostly mothers but with a smattering of fathers — have given the trial a much more emotionally charged dynamic than many US legal disputes involving the tech industry.When Mark Zuckerberg walks into a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday and sits down in the witness stand, he is likely to be looking directly at a rank of angry, grieving people who blame him and other tech leaders for the death or harm of their children....

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