TikTok and Snap settle: Meta and YouTube face jury over tech addiction case

Aytun Çelebi · January 28, 2026, 14:39 ·1 min read

TikTok settled a high-profile lawsuit on Monday evening that alleges social media companies intentionally design addictive products, causing harm to users. Snap settled the same case the previous week. Meta and YouTube, the remaining defendants, head to trial with jury selection set to begin Tuesday.

The lawsuit centers on a 19-year-old plaintiff identified only as K.G.M. It represents the first of many similar legal challenges against social platforms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan are expected to testify.

Neither TikTok nor Snap admitted to the allegations in their out-of-court agreements with the plaintiff. Settlement terms remain undisclosed.

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Aytun Çelebi

Starting with coding on Commodore 64 in elementary school moving to web programming in his teenage years, Aytun has been around technology for over 30 years, and he has been a tech journalist for over 20 years now. He worked in many major Turkish outlets (newspapers, magazines, TV channels and websites) and managed some. Besides journalism, he worked as a copywriter and PR manager (for Lenovo, HP and many international brands ) in agencies. He founded his agency, Linkmedya in 2019 to execute his way of producing content. He is recently interested in AI, automation and MarTech.

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