00:01Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, will come face-to-face with families who say his platforms have caused irreparable
00:08harm.
00:09Among them is a woman identified as Kaylee G.M.
00:12The 20-year-old is suing the Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google, which owns YouTube.
00:20Kaylee's lawyer says she was hooked on social media at a young age due to the app's addictive design.
00:26Protests are now taking place to demand answers from CEOs regarding the dangers of social media for children.
00:33Outside Snapchat's headquarters, Todd Minor spoke about his son Matthew, who died at the age of 12 after trying the
00:40blackout social media challenge.
00:42He died at the hands of a social media application such as Snap, and we're here because we're angry.
00:48We're saying not another child, not another family should go through what we've gone through.
00:53Social media companies face more than a thousand lawsuits accusing them of leading young users to become addicted to content
01:00and suffer from depression, eating disorders and even suicide.
01:04Kaylee's case is one of the three scheduled test cases known as bellwether trials, chosen from hundreds of related lawsuits
01:11accusing the platforms of harming youth.
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