What it was like to watch grieving parents stare down Mark Zuckerberg in court

Grieving parents gathered outside a Los Angeles courtroom for a landmark trial examining whether social media companies like Meta can be held liable for harms to children, including deaths linked to platform use. Parents wore butterfly clips honoring lost children and competed via lottery for limited public seats to watch Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify. The case, brought by a young woman alleging addictive platform design, is part of a broader wave of lawsuits by parents whose children died by suicide, choking challenges, or overdoses they attribute to online platforms.