Meta、Snap 将在另一起社交媒体危害案中出庭受审旧金山——预计将于 10 月 28 日在洛杉矶开始选拔陪审员，进行另一起关于社交媒体对年轻用户涉嫌危害的里程碑式审判，被告为 Meta 以及首次出庭的 Snap。
Meta, Snap head to trial in another case about social media’s harms SAN FRANCISCO – Jury selection is expected to begin on Oct 28 in Los Angeles for another landmark trial about the alleged harms of social media on young users, with Meta and, for the first time, Snap as defendants.
近年来，全国各地的地方、州和联邦法院已提起数千起诉讼，指控社交媒体公司对儿童和青少年造成各种涉嫌危害。
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in recent years in local, state and federal courtrooms across the country with various claims about alleged harms to children and teenagers caused by social media companies.
这些案件——其中第一起于 2026 年早些时候在洛杉矶开庭审理——经历了反复和曲折。
The cases – the first of which went to trial earlier in 2026 in Los Angeles – have taken twists and turns.
Meta 和 YouTube 在 2026 年早些时候输掉了首个所谓的“风向标案件”，当时陪审团认定它们共同对一名以 KGM 为首字母缩写的年轻用户造成危害负有责任，并责令这些科技公司共同支付 600 万美元（约 770 万新元）的赔偿金。Meta 当时表示，他们“恭敬地不同意”该裁决。
Meta and YouTube lost the first so-called bellwether case earlier in 2026, when a jury found them collectively liable for harming a young user known by the initials KGM, and ordered the tech companies to pay a combined US$6 million (S$7.7 million) penalty. Meta said at the time that they “respectfully disagree” with the verdict.
Snap 和 TikTok 在该案开庭前与 KGM 达成和解。
Snap and TikTok settled with KGM ahead of that trial.
几个月后，Snap、TikTok 和 YouTube 与另一起原定于 8 月开庭的案件达成和解。该原告（称为 RKC）随后撤回了对 Meta 的其余指控，使这家 Instagram 和 Facebook 的制造商在未达成和解的情况下避免了出庭受审。
Months later, Snap, TikTok and YouTube settled another case that was set to go to trial in August. That plaintiff, known as RKC, then withdrew their remaining claims against Meta, allowing the Instagram and Facebook maker to avoid trial without a settlement.
据其律师称，TikTok 和 YouTube 此前在新案件中被列为被告，但双方均在开庭前与原告（以首字母缩写 SJ 和 KDB 称呼）达成了和解协议。
TikTok and YouTube were previously named as defendants in the new case, but both companies reached settlement agreements with the plaintiffs, known by their initials SJ and KDB, before the start of the trial, their lawyers said.
据其律师称，Meta 与原告之一 SJ 达成了和解协议，但未与 KDB 达成。一名加利福尼亚州法官将这两起案件合并为单一审理。
Meta reached a settlement agreement with one of the plaintiffs, SJ, but not KDB, according to their lawyers. A California state judge consolidated both cases into a single trial.
如果在 11 月 4 日开庭陈述开始前未再达成和解，新审判将由 Meta 和 Snap 作为被告继续进行。
If no additional settlements are reached before opening statements kick off on Nov 4, the new trial will move forward with both Meta and Snap as defendants.
预计从 11 月中旬起，明星证人将出庭作证，包括 Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格、Instagram 负责人亚当·莫塞里和 Snap 首席执行官埃文·斯皮格尔。
Star witnesses are expected to testify beginning mid-November, including Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel.
10月初，新墨西哥州一名法官下令Meta支付250亿美元，此前该公司被认定在与剑桥分析公司（Cambridge Analytica）丑闻相关的案件中，欺骗该州用户关于其数据如何被使用。
Earlier in October, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay US$25 billion in a case where the company was found liable for deceiving users in the state about how their data was used in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
此前，新墨西哥州一个陪审团认定这家社交媒体巨头对儿童造成伤害，导致合计罚款9.42亿美元。
A New Mexico jury previously found the social media giant liable for harms to children, leading to a combined penalty of US$942 million.
8月，在加利福尼亚州举行的审判进行数日后，Meta同意支付超过180亿美元的罚款，并对Instagram和Facebook针对青少年的功能做出改变，与52位州检察长达成和解。
In August, Meta agreed to pay more than US$18 billion in penalties, in addition to making changes to Instagram and Facebook for teens, when it settled with 52 attorneys-general several days into a trial held in California.
该和解的部分条款取决于YouTube和TikTok对其自身产品做出类似改变，例如限制每日屏幕使用时间。“成瘾且有问题”随着世界各地监管机构在遏制甚至禁止青少年使用社交媒体方面展开角力，美国的诉讼聚焦于指控社交媒体公司采用成瘾性设计和欺骗性做法。
Part of that settlement hinged on YouTube and TikTok making similar changes to their own products, such as limiting daily screen time. ‘Addictive and problematic’As regulators around the world grapple with reining in, or even banning, social media use for teens, American lawsuits have focused on allegations of addictive design and deceptive practices by social media companies.
根据法庭文件，11月，洛杉矶两名原告SJ和KDB的律师将辩称，他们的当事人在分别13岁和15岁开始使用时，接触到了“成瘾且有问题”的社交媒体应用。
In November, lawyers for the two plaintiffs in Los Angeles – SJ and KDB – will argue that their clients were exposed to “addictive and problematic” social media apps when they started using them at 13 and 15, respectively, according to court documents.
SJ是伊利诺伊州的一名青少年，她的律师称，她开始强迫性地使用Snap公司开发的应用Snapchat，随后出现心理健康问题、饮食失调和自残。
SJ, a teen in Illinois, began to use Snapchat, the app created by Snap, compulsively and subsequently experienced mental health issues, an eating disorder and self harm, her lawyers claim.
根据她的律师称，现年18岁、来自密西西比州的KDB同样对Meta和Snap产生了强迫性使用，导致身心健康恶化。Meta此前否认此类指控。
KDB, now an 18-year-old from Mississippi, similarly developed compulsive use of both Meta and Snap, leading to worsening mental and physical health, according to her lawyers. Meta has previously denied such claims.
Meta在7月告诉法新社：“我们不会退缩，将为自己针对这些毫无根据的诉讼进行辩护。”
“We will not back away from defending ourselves against baseless lawsuits,” Meta told AFP in July.
Snap打算辩称，由于Snapchat主要专注于作为一个即时通讯平台，因此它不同于Meta的Instagram和Facebook等其他应用。
Snap intends to argue that it is different from other apps like Meta’s Instagram and Facebook because of Snapchat’s focus on primarily being a messaging platform.
“我们相信证据将支持我们把社区放在首位，并且这些指控从根本上歪曲了原告在 Snapchat 上的经历以及我们平台的设计初衷，”Snap 发言人在一份声明中说。
“We believe the evidence will support that we have put our community first, and that these allegations fundamentally misrepresent the plaintiffs’ experiences on Snapchat and how our platform was designed,” a Snap spokesperson said in a statement.