The 20-year-old woman at the center of a landmark trial over social media addiction used YouTube for an average of just 29 minutes per day over the last five years, a lawyer for Google told jurors.
Moreover, the woman identified in court filings as K.G.M. and in the courtroom as Kaley said in pretrial testimony last year she didn¡¯t consider herself at the time to be an addict, and neither her mental health therapist nor her father saw her as one, attorney Luis Li said Tuesday in his opening statement.
¡°She says she¡¯s not addicted, her dad said she¡¯s not addicted, her doctor says she¡¯s not addicted,¡± Li said. ¡°Her medical records in 10,000 pages don¡¯t say she¡¯s addicted. Her behavior doesn¡¯t seem like she is addicted. So why are we here?¡±
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