Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86e3eglv2go

Silicon Valley reeling from social media addiction trial verdict

The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.

>The verdict has forced those inside the companies to grapple with the fact that many outsiders do not view them as favourably as they have come to view themselves.

I'm not sure this rings true to me. Meta has to know that millenials and younger are giving up on their platforms, they have endless internal data showing it, right? If anything they are just afraid of endless litigation while they are struggling to gain an AI foothold.

> Meta has to know that millenials and younger are giving up on their platforms, they have endless internal data showing it, right?

Do you have a source for that? I don't think it's true when looking at global Meta numbers across _all_ Meta social platforms (FB+Instagram+Threads) combined.