{
  "id": 10763,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/youtube-appeals-social-media-addiction-verdict",
  "title": "YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media",
  "summary": "YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security,children-education",
  "orgs": "google,meta",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T21:20:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10763",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/youtube-appeals-social-media-addiction-verdict",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}