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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

  • Trial continues today in federal court in California as a group of states sues Metta,

  • parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging the platforms are designed to be addictive to young users.

  • And Piers John Ruich has more.

  • California's Deputy Attorney General Megan O'Neill gave opening statements for the states,

  • and she argued that Metta's business model is the problem, and she summed it up in four words, hook, hold.

  • Harvest and hide.

  • So the model was to hook teens to hold their attention, to harvest their data,

  • and then to hide the truth from the public about the risks that they face while being on the platforms.

  • NPRS John Riewicz reporting.

  • The long primary season is nearing an end in Alaska.

  • Results are still being counted in the key Senate race, but former Congresswoman Mary Peltola

  • and incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan both advanced to the November ballot.

  • In Florida, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her redistricted

  • race for a seat that had long been held by a black representative.

  • And it was a mixed bag for progressives, as many lost their House primaries.

  • But in the U.S.

  • Senate race, progressive state lawmaker Angie Nixon easily won.

  • Florida voters also picked their Republican and Democratic nominees in the governor's race,

  • as Douglas Soule from member station WUSF reports.