The lawsuit that could permanently change your social-media feed

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  Good morning.

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  States hit Meta with a lawsuit that could change the company for good.

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  They're alleging that this company designed these products so that they were purposefully addictive,

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  so that young people, you know, really didn't stand a chance

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  at sort of saying no and putting their phone down.

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  Why Democratic leadership is refusing to back one of its senior members in a Florida primary,

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  and how airlines are pushing back on ICE activity at the gate.

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  It's Tuesday, August 18th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shumita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Meta is back in court today to defend itself against states

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  alleging that apps like Instagram and Facebook harm kids.

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  This time, the company claims that states want 1.4 trillion dollars in damages,

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  a figure that could bring them down.

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  Gerrit De Vynck is covering the trial for the Washington Post.

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  What the governments are going for here is really big and could have some serious consequences for Meta.

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  The attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue

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  that Meta designed their apps to keep kids glued to their phones.

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  With features, recommendation algorithms, beauty filters, and infinite scroll,

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  where, as it sounds, your feed never ends.

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