YouTube Lawyer Sees No Addiction From Half Hour of Videos (1)

Feb. 10, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC

The 20-year-old woman at the center of a landmark trial over social media addiction used YouTube for an average of just 29 minutes per day over the last five years, a lawyer for Google told jurors.

Moreover, the woman identified in court filings as K.G.M. and in the courtroom as Kaley said in pretrial testimony last year she didn’t consider herself at the time to be an addict, and neither her mental health therapist nor her father saw her as one, attorney Luis Li said Tuesday in his opening statement.

“She says she’s not addicted, her dad said she’s not ...

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