Social Media Giant Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Contribution to Youth Mental Health Cr拠
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The lawsuit accuses the social media giant of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features that get children addicted to its platforms. It also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law.
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New York Post Business“Meta designed a dangerous product for young users, knew it to be dangerous, and then lied to children, families, and the community about how dangerous it was,” California AG Rob Bonta said in a statement last week. “We are ready to hold Meta accountable for its role in fueling the mental health crisis of American children and look forward to trial. It seems Meta very much does not.”
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Attorneys for Meta, which has strenuously denied wrongdoing, will argue that the state AGs are seeking damages that go far beyond the actual scope of their case – and that they have provided no evidence that the company’s apps cause real-world harm.
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Washington Times BusinessThe Oakland case, meanwhile, has state attorneys general as the plaintiffs and centers on state and federal statutes they allege Meta violated, which lay out potential penalty amounts for each violation.
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Aside from its loss in New Mexico, Meta and Google were ordered to pay a combined $6 million in damages after being held liable in California state court for fueling social media addiction for a 20-year-old woman known as “KGM.”
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Washington Times BusinessTrial seeks to hold Meta accountable on state and federal statutes The federal trial this week is more complex than one earlier this year, in Los Angeles, where a state court awarded $6 million in damages from Meta and Google’s YouTube to a single plaintiff, a young woman who testified she became addicted to social media as a child.
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01 ZeroHedge Meta Platforms is facing a critical juncture in its battle over youth online safety. Just weeks after suffering a massive legal defeat in New Mexico, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is now defending itself in a California federal court against a bipartisan coalition of 29 states. The states say Meta deliberately designed its platforms to addict children and harvested their data in violation of federal law.
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02 New York Post Business Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces the possibility of paying “astronomical” damages as opening arguments in the landmark trial accusing the tech giant of fueling a teen mental health crisis get underway in California federal court on Tuesday.
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03 Washington Times Business Meta has introduced a slew of new features in recent years designed to protect minors. In 2024 it launched teen accounts on Instagram, which are private by default and come with messaging and content restrictions, and parental controls. The company also uses artificial intelligence to determine if kids under 13 are using Instagram or if teenagers are lying about their age to access adult accounts.
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04 Fortune Good morning, Spirit Airlines may have gone bankrupt, but its data lives on. Google has reportedly purchased Spirit’s trove of operational and customer data as part of the carrier’s bankruptcy wind-down, scooping up years of booking patterns, pricing behavior, and customer service logs to help train its AI.
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05 Financial Times OpenAI limits teens to dedicated version of ChatGPT promising more safeguards AI start-up overhauls its chatbot for young people after high-profile lawsuits
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06 BBC Business Published Meta has been hit with successive losses in court over how its platforms have targeted and harmed young users, but a jury trial set to begin on Tuesday may pose the biggest threat yet to its operations.
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