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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm Rajini Vaidyanavan.
Now, it 's a case which pitted the world's biggest tech platforms against a 20-year-old woman known as Kayleigh,
who argued that their apps and sites, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, were all created to be addictive.
Well, a few hours ago in a landmark decision,
a jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Google liable for causing her addiction and harming her mental health.
She's been awarded $3 million in compensatory damages and then a further $3 million in punitive damages.
Well, in the past hour, Kayleigh's lawyer Mark Lanier gave this reaction to reporters outside the court.
This message is one that 's important to Kayleigh and her family,
but it 's of very great importance to a generation of people who have been affected.
Well, our reporter, Regan Morris, was outside the courtroom too,
and I asked her earlier to explain the findings of the jury.
The jury found Meta and Google, the parent companies of Instagram and YouTube, overwhelmingly negligent.
There was a lot of speculation.
You know, we 've been waiting here for over a week for this and people kind of thought maybe Instagram would be at fault,
but not YouTube because she did n't seem to use it as well as much.
And they did divide some of that blame financially.
You know, they said that Instagram would have to pay 70 percent of her compensation
and YouTube would have to pay 30 percent.