Hello, just after we published the previous episode of Newscast on Wednesday,
there was a massive news story broke in California, the west coast of the USA, where a jury found that Meta,
the parent company of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook,
And Google, or at least the part of Google that 's responsible for YouTube,
had created social media platforms that were addictive and had harmed the mental health of one
American female user who 's now in her 20s.
And this has got people asking if this is a watershed moment for the regulation and the business model.
Of social media, with of course the big caveat that actually the regulation of these platforms in the UK
and in Europe is different from America.
So we thought we would spend the whole of this episode of Newscast chewing over the implications of this court case
with the BBC's technology editors Zoe Kleinman and Faisal Islam.
Our economics editor.
So that is what you'll hear on this episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio.
And joining us here in person, I think actually for the first time ever, is our technology editor, Zoe Kleinman.
Hello, Zoe.
Thank you for having me.
Welcome to the fake living room.
I've never been here before.
It's lovely.