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Inpatient psychiatric injury

Hospitalization, residential treatment, and psychiatric harm following sustained compulsive use, reviewed against medical records, treatment history, and the engagement-design record.

The record

Design, notice, and causation, for this injury specifically.

Every quoted document below is drawn from the public litigation record. Where the causation science is contested, we say so rather than round it off.

Design

The features at issue

Engagement-maximizing design, algorithmic recommendation, and notification design documented in internal decks and messages.

JCCP 00085 – Dkt. 3011-19

Notice

What was known, and by whom

Internal well-being research and executive testimony on the growth-versus-safety trade-off.

Dkt. 3248-21

Causation

How this is assessed

Medical chronology and differential analysis of alternative causes decide an individual claim.

Expert reports

Being honest about the limits.

These documents establish that the features and the knowledge are documented. They do not by themselves establish what caused any one child's hospitalization.