Meta settles with 18-year-old over Instagram’s allegedly harmful algorithms days before trial

The lawsuit was filed by a woman who is now 18 and accused the platforms of having harmful, addictive algorithms, reports The New York Times.

YouTube and TikTok have already reached settlements with the teenager. Snapchat’s owner is the only company still facing a lawsuit.

Among other things, the court will examine the feature that enables infinite scrolling in algorithmic feeds.

A ruling against the companies could have major financial consequences. A judge in California selected the case from thousands of similar lawsuits.

Meta and YouTube lost the first such case in the state in March. A jury then awarded a young woman $6 million in damages.