Laura Marquez-Garrett (C), plaintiffs' attorney for SMVLC (Social Media Victims Law Center), gathers with family members of victims as they check their phones for news about the verdict outside the Los Angeles Superior Court during the social media trial tasked to determine whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children, in Los Angeles, on March 25, 2026. A jury on March 25 reached a verdict in a landmark social media trial pitting Meta and YouTube against a California woman who accused the tech giants of designing addictive platforms that harmed her mental health, lawyers told AFP. The verdict was expected to be announced shortly. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)