A young woman, who is suing Meta and Google over what she claims is the addictive nature of social media, has told a jury her childhood years were taken over by her use of Instagram and Youtube.
"I stopped engaging with family because I was spending all my time on social media," said the woman, who is known as KGM or Kaley, to protect her privacy.
She told the court in Los Angeles that she began using YouTube at the age of 6 and Instagram aged 9 and encountered no barriers to prevent her using them despite her young age.
Meta has so far argued that Kaley's excessive use of Instagram was not an addiction and that their platform was not to blame for her ensuing mental health problems.
While much of the court proceedings so far have focused on Instagram and Meta, Google's YouTube is also a defendant in the lawsuit.
