Just over a year after Mark Zuckerberg joined other tech lords at Donald Trump ‘s second inauguration, the Meta CEO is going to find himself testifying in an LA courtroom on the dangers and harm that Instagram , Facebook, TikTok , YouTube , and Snap are accused of inflicting on young users.

The presence of the increasingly MAGA friendly billionaire was sealed after a ruling in LA Superior Court Wednesday almost uniformly rejected immunity arguments by the social media companies. Meta, Google , TikTok current owner ByteDance , SNAP had hoped to see a consultation of cases involving hardcore mental health issues claims against them dismissed based on elements of the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment.

Judge Carolyn Kuhl rejected that, asserting that the

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