from BBC Learning English.
This is Learning English from the News, our podcast about the news headlines.
In this program, YouTube and Meta intentionally built addictive platforms.US court finds.
Hello, I'm Becca.
And I'm Georgie.
In this podcast, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.
You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode,
as well as a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
So let's hear more about this story.
Meta and YouTube have been found legally responsible for creating addictive platforms.
Meta is the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Kaylee, known only by her first name, started the lawsuit against them in Los Angeles in the United States,
claiming that they had negatively impacted her mental health.
She received $6 million in damages.
Since the age of nine, Kaylee experienced struggles with her family and at school.
She added that these platforms made these struggles worse and left her with depression
and unhealthy thoughts about herself.
And met a spokesperson told the BBC that these complex teenage struggles could not be blamed on using their platforms.
A spokesperson from Google, the owner of YouTube,
told the BBC that their platform had been misunderstood because they're not a social media site.