India, March 30 -- A landmark trial against Meta and YouTube brought by a 20-year-old woman who blames the platforms for social media addiction that began when she was six, has ended with the jury finding the companies guilty of harming her through design features that they knew were addictive.

Mark Lanier, the lawyer for the woman identified as KGM or Kaley, said his client suffered from mental health issues, including compulsive use, depression and body dysmorphia, as a result of her addiction. The "companies built machines designed to addict the brains of children, and they did it on purpose," he said in his opening remarks, as reported by BBC.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta will pay Kaley $4.2 million, YouTube $1.8 million in damages-peanut...