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YouTube and Meta Appeal Ruling on User Social Media Addiction

YouTube and Meta Appeal Ruling on User Social Media Addiction

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July 16th, 2026

YouTube and Meta Appeal Ruling on User Social Media Addiction

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YouTube has appealed the verdict in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit that was adjudicated in Los Angeles.

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

This constitutes a measure to contest the jury's ruling that the company designed its platform with a flagrant disregard for the well-being of its younger users.

์ด๋Š” ๋™์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒญ๋…„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์›ฐ๋น™์„ ๋„์™ธ์‹œํ•œ ์ฑ„ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์‹ฌ์›๋‹จ์˜ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์— ์ด์˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋‹ค.

The legal team representing YouTube filed a notice of appeal with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, a move that occurred less than a week after Meta, a co-defendant in the same case, submitted its own appeal.

์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์›”์š”์ผ ๋กœ์Šค์•ค์ ค๋ ˆ์Šค ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ ๊ณ ๋“ฑ๋ฒ•์›์— ํ•ญ์†Œ์žฅ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋™์ผ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ํ”ผ๊ณ ์˜€๋˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฒด ํ•ญ์†Œ์žฅ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ๋„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‹œ์ ์— ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์กฐ์น˜์ด๋‹ค.

The legal team intends to articulate the specific arguments pertaining to the appeal in a written submission to be filed with the court at a later date.

๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์ถ”ํ›„ ๋ฒ•์›์— ์ œ์ถœํ•  ์„œ๋ฉด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•ญ์†Œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋…ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ง„ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

At the crux of this case stood a woman in her twenties.

๋ณธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์—๋Š” 20๋Œ€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The plaintiff contended that she had become addicted to social media during her formative years, thereby exacerbating her mental health afflictions.

ํ”ผ๊ณ ์ธ์€ ์œ ๋…„ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์†Œ์…œ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ์ค‘๋…๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The jury rendered a verdict that the negligence of Google-owned YouTube and Meta constituted a substantial contributing factor in precipitating harm to the young woman in question.

๋ฐฐ์‹ฌ์›๋‹จ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ์‚ฐํ•˜ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ์™€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๊ณผ์‹ค์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์ Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.

In the courtroom, she was identified solely by the initials KGM and the given name Kaley.

๋ฒ•์ •์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…œ KGM๊ณผ ์ด๋ฆ„ Kaley๋กœ๋งŒ ํŠน์ •๋˜์—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 issued last week following Meta's appeal, "Kaley's legal team anticipates that the appellate court will meticulously apply the law to this case and uphold the lower court's verdict."

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

In a statement released last week, Google spokesperson Josรฉ Castaรฑeda affirmed that YouTube intends to appeal, emphasizing that this constitutes "a standard procedural step for the progression of this case."

๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ ํ˜ธ์„ธ ์นด์Šคํƒ€๋„ค๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ์„ฑ๋ช…์—์„œ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์†Œํ•  ๋ฐฉ์นจ์ž„์„ ์ฒœ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” "๋ณธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ‘œ์ค€์  ์ ˆ์ฐจ"์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ญ์„คํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta and Google each filed motions for a retrial following the initial verdict, but Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl dismissed them in early June.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€์™€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 1์‹ฌ ํŒ๊ฒฐ ์ดํ›„ ์žฌ์‹ฌ์„ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ์บ๋กค๋ฆฐ B. ์ฟจ ํŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” 6์›” ์ดˆ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

One of the central arguments advanced by YouTube over the course of the five-week trial was that its platform, which provides video-sharing and streaming services, does not constitute a social media platform.

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

Throughout the trial, the legal representatives of YouTube and Meta persistently challenged whether the evidence and arguments presented contravened the statutory safe harbour provisions that shield technology companies from liability for content posted by third parties.

์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ์™€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์žฌํŒ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ, ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ์ œ3์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๋ฒ•์  ๋ฉด์ฑ… ์กฐํ•ญ์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ ์‚ผ์•˜๋‹ค.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 insulates such enterprises from legal culpability arising from that content.

1996๋…„ ํ†ต์‹ ํ’ˆ์œ„๋ฒ• ์ œ230์กฐ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

Conversely, the plaintiffs' legal team drew attention to design features such as autoplay, contending that these could engender prolonged and inadvertent engagement with the platform.

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์›๊ณ  ์ธก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์ธ๋‹จ์€ ์ž๋™ ์žฌ์ƒ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ค๊ณ„์  ์š”์†Œ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋น„์˜๋„์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Kaley's case was the inaugural lawsuit, and this verdict is poised to establish a precedent that could profoundly influence the outcomes of thousands of analogous litigations accusing social media companies of deliberately inflicting harm.

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

TikTok and Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, were also initially named as defendants, but each was dismissed from the case prior to the commencement of the trial, having reached settlements for undisclosed sums.

ํ‹ฑํ†ก๊ณผ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ฑ—์˜ ๋ชจํšŒ์‚ฌ์ธ ์Šค๋ƒ… Inc. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ”ผ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ง€๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์žฌํŒ ๊ฐœ์‹œ ์ „ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ํ•ฉ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์—์„œ ์ œ์™ธ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

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