Meta faces thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction
In the first lawsuit to go to trial in the California litigation and a closely watched test of how juries might respond to similar claims, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta and Google negligent for designing social media platforms that harm young people.
The court also denied Meta’s bid to postpone a trial beginning Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general alleging that the company illegally collected and used children data, designed their social media platforms to keep young users hooked and misled consumers about their safety.
US appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance, TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users.
This is a summary of the original articles listed below. Always read the source articles for the full context. GhanaSummary does not create or modify the news — we summarise and link to original publishers.
