Feb. 25, 2026
Jurors see YouTube scroll demo in youth addiction trial
Jurors watched plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier demonstrate YouTube Shorts' autoplay, questioning the company's vice president, Cristos Goodrow, about infinite scroll and safeguards, trying to prove design features fostered compulsive use and harmed a minor user.
Jurors watched on a courtroom screen Tuesday as plaintiffs' attorney Mark Lanier scrolled through a stream of YouTube Shorts, pressing the company's engineering executive on how - and whether - the platform ever tells users to stop.
It is the second day YouTube Vice President of Engineering Cristos Goodrow has been on the stand in the first of three bellwether social media addiction trials scheduled this year before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl. ...
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