Meta and YouTube Architecture Of Infinite Scroll Harm

In a courtroom in Los Angeles, a young woman’s life, her initials, K.G.M., was reduced to evidence. Hours spent scrolling. Nights without sleep. A mind drawn, again and again, toward a glowing screen that never asked her to stop.

Meta and YouTube were found liable for negligence in protecting a minor, with damages awarded for the psychological toll of systems that plaintiffs argued were engineered to be addictive and exploit their developmental vulnerabilities.

Rather than deliberating on a single post, a single video, or a single act of neglect, the jury considered something more unsettling. The possibility that harm was not incidental to these platforms, but intrinsic to their design.

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