Los Angeles, United States, Feb 24, 2026 (AFP) - YouTube exec says goal was viewer value not addiction

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A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful binge-viewing. YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company's self-styled "big, hairy, audacious goal," set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a billion hours a day by 2016. As he did last week when Meta......

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