The average American spends roughly 4 to 5 hours on their phone a day and for many, it’s the first thing they look at when they wake up in the mornings and the last thing at night before going to sleep.
Social media’s hold over Americans is becoming apparent, with the jury in a landmark case last month in California ordering tech giants Meta and YouTube to pay a young woman $6 million in damages after the court heard how she became addicted to the platforms. In New Mexico, a jury in a bellwether case running in tandem to the California one also found that Meta was harmful to children's mental health and ordered them to pay $375 million in damages for violating state consumer protection law.
