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Appeals the ruling on user social media addiction alongside YouTube and Meta.

Appeals the ruling on user social media addiction alongside YouTube and Meta.

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July 16th, 2026

Appeals the ruling on user social media addiction alongside YouTube and Meta.

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YouTube has appealed the verdict in the social media addiction lawsuit that took place in Los Angeles.

์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ๋กœ์Šค์•ค์ ค๋ ˆ์Šค์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์ค‘๋… ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ํ‰๊ฒฐ์— ํ•ญ์†Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This is a move to challenge the jury's ruling that the company designed its platform without considering the well-being of young users.

์ด๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ Š์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์›ฐ๋น™์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์‹ฌ์›๋‹จ์˜ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋‹ค.

The legal representatives acting on behalf of YouTube filed a notice of appeal with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.

์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์›”์š”์ผ ๋กœ์Šค์•ค์ ค๋ ˆ์Šค ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ ๊ณ ๋“ฑ๋ฒ•์›์— ํ•ญ์†Œ์žฅ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This comes less than a week after Meta, a co-defendant in the same case, submitted its own notice of appeal.

์ด๋Š” ๋™์ผ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ํ”ผ๊ณ ์˜€๋˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฒด ํ•ญ์†Œ์žฅ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ์ง€ ์ฑ„ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‹œ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

The legal team is expected to elaborate on the arguments related to the appeal in subsequent court filings.

๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์ถ”ํ›„ ๋ฒ•์› ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•ญ์†Œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ํŽผ์น  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

At the heart of this case was a woman in her twenties.

์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” 20๋Œ€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

She claimed that she had become addicted to social media as a child, which exacerbated her mental health issues.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ์ค‘๋…๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•…ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The jury ruled that the negligence of Google-owned YouTube and Meta was a substantial factor in causing harm to this young woman.

๋ฐฐ์‹ฌ์›๋‹จ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ์†Œ์œ ์˜ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ์™€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๊ณผ์‹ค์ด ์ด ์ Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ผ์น˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‹ค์งˆ์  ์š”์ธ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๊ฒฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In court, she was identified only by the initials KGM and the name Kaley.

๋ฒ•์ •์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…œ KGM๊ณผ ์ด๋ฆ„ Kaley๋กœ๋งŒ ์‹๋ณ„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The jury ordered the defendant to pay $3 million in compensatory damages and additionally recommended $3 million in punitive damages.

๋ฐฐ์‹ฌ์›๋‹จ์€ ํ”ผ๊ณ ์—๊ฒŒ 300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์†ํ•ด๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ช…๋ นํ•˜๊ณ , ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ 300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ง•๋ฒŒ์  ์†ํ•ด๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ์„ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Her lead attorney, Mark Lanier, stated in a press release following Meta's appeal last week, "Kaley's legal team expects the appellate court to apply the law carefully to this case and uphold the lower court's verdict."

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ฃผ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์ธ ๋งˆํฌ ๋ผ๋‹ˆ์–ด๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ํ•ญ์†Œ ์ดํ›„ ์„ฑ๋ช…์—์„œ "Kaley์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ํŒ€์€ ํ•ญ์†Œ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์— ๋ฒ•์„ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ธ‰ ๋ฒ•์›์˜ ํ‰๊ฒฐ์„ ํ™•์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Google spokesperson Josรฉ Castaรฑeda stated in a press release last week that YouTube intends to appeal, explaining, "This is a standard procedure for the case to proceed."

๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ํ˜ธ์„ธ ์นด์Šคํƒ€๋„ค๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ์„ฑ๋ช…์—์„œ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์†Œํ•  ๋ฐฉ์นจ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, "์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ‘œ์ค€์ ์ธ ์ ˆ์ฐจ"๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta and Google each filed appeals following the initial ruling, but Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl dismissed their motions in early June.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€์™€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 1์‹ฌ ํŒ๊ฒฐ ์ดํ›„ ํ•ญ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์บ๋กค๋ฆฐ B. ์ฟจ ํŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” 6์›” ์ดˆ ์ด๋“ค ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

One of the key arguments presented by YouTube during the five-week trial was that its platform, which provides video sharing and streaming services, is not a social media platform.

5์ฃผ๊ฐ„์˜ ์žฌํŒ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋…ผ์ง€ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š”, ๋™์˜์ƒ ๊ณต์œ  ๋ฐ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Furthermore, throughout the trial, the legal teams for YouTube and Meta persistently questioned whether the evidence and arguments infringed upon the legal protections afforded to technology companies regarding content posted by third parties.

๋˜ํ•œ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ์™€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์žฌํŒ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์™€ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ์ œ3์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๋ฒ•์  ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์กฐํ•ญ์„ ์นจํ•ดํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์กŒ๋‹ค.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 shields such companies from legal liability for that content.

1996๋…„ ํ†ต์‹ ํ’ˆ์œ„๋ฒ• ์ œ230์กฐ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์—์„œ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

In contrast, the plaintiffs' legal team focused on design features such as autoplay, arguing that these could lead to prolonged and unintentional use of the platform.

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์›๊ณ  ์ธก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์ž๋™ ์žฌ์ƒ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋””์ž์ธ ์š”์†Œ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ง€์†๋˜๊ณ  ์˜๋„์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Kaley's case was the first of its kind, and this ruling could significantly influence the outcomes of thousands of similar lawsuits accusing social media companies of intentionally causing harm.

Kaley์˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์†Œ์†ก์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํŒ๊ฒฐ์€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…ํ˜”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ฑด์˜ ์œ ์‚ฌ ์†Œ์†ก ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

TikTok and Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, were also initially named as defendants but reached settlements for undisclosed amounts before the trial began.

ํ‹ฑํ†ก๊ณผ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ฑ—์˜ ๋ชจํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ ์Šค๋ƒ… Inc.๋„ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ”ผ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ง€๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์žฌํŒ ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์ „์— ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ ๊ธˆ์•ก์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค.

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