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Meta and YouTube will have to pay millions in damages to a 20-year-old woman after a jury decided the social media and video streaming platforms designed their sites to hook young users without concern for their well being.

Meta, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.

The companies say they intend to appeal against the verdict, which could set a legal precedent and have far-reaching consequences.

Marianna Spring, the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent, has spent the past year speaking to whistleblowers and insiders from social media companies, revealing how algorithms designed to connect people have been helping to tear them apart. We ask if this week’s verdict is just the start of something much bigger.

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00:00 Introduction
01:09 What was the landmark ruling?
06:58 How do social media companies build algorithms?
12:52 The TikTok effect
20:35 What do social media whistleblowers say?
24:41 What could happen next for social media companies?