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YouTube settles ahead of the next bellwether trial over alleged harms from social media.

The terms of the settlement are confidential, Courthouse News Service reports. Meta, Snap, and ByteDance are still set to be defendants in the trial, which is being brought by a 15-year old plaintiff known as “R.K.C.” and is scheduled to start on July 27th.

In the first bellwether case, Meta and YouTube were found negligent.

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