Sunday, July 05, 2026

Tip of an iceberg or a one time thing?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-03/google-and-meta-lost-a-landmark-trial-to-kaley-but-kept-her-as-a-user?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MzA4MjU5MywiZXhwIjoxNzgzNjg3MzkzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSExGU01LR0NURlcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMkFCMzMwMjhGQTY0NjczOTYxNEE2RDFFMDk3QTkyMCJ9.hlUtsajBp9vE9j4Kt0jiky_2NmsAwH1Xi0BKXwcGmNQ&leadSource=uverify%20wall

At 17, She Sued Meta and Google, and Won. Now She’s Ready to Tell Her Story

When Kaley Glenn-Mills, at age 17, agreed to take on some of the world’s most powerful corporations — accusing them in court of addicting children to social media — she was afraid of only one thing. Her trepidation wasn’t over attorneys combing through her digital history, or her explicit photos being entered into evidence, or things she’d said in private therapy sessions being used against her, or her mom being villainized publicly, or potential corporate surveillance, or even having to testify. No. What kept her up at night was the possibility that the social media companies she was suing — Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat — would banish her. “Are the companies going to get mad at me and delete my accounts?” she remembers thinking. “If they delete my accounts, what am I going to do with my life?”



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