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Meta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictive
A trial over claims against Meta brought by 29 states alleging the company violated federal law protecting data collected from children and additional state law claims from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey is scheduled to begin on August 18 in federal court in California.
The trial, which is slated to last seven weeks, is scheduled to overlap with at least two other trials against the company in California as it faces thousands of lawsuits over similar claims in both state and federal court.
The state alleges founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was repeatedly warned by some Meta employees about research that found a negative impact on teens, but declined to fund efforts to minimise those harms and made misleading public statements about the amount of harmful content on the platforms.
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