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World Service,10 Feb 2026,49 mins

A landmark trial starts in California against Meta and Google

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Mark Lanier is representing a woman who says she suffered severe mental harm by becoming addicted to social media as a child. The companies, Meta and Google deny their products deliberately harm children. The brutal clampdown on protests in Iran may have left tens of thousands dead, amongst those killed activists think that there could be several hundred dead children. We'll hear from those who have been investigating the casualties under the "empty desk" campaign. There's new archaeological evidence that shows that north america's indigenous population travelled to the islands around Greenland four-and-a-half-thousand years ago. (Photo: File photo dated 03/01/18 of the icons of social media apps are displayed on a mobile phone screen; Credit:Yui Mok/PA)

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