When B.C. teenager Amanda Todd sat in front of her computer and detailed the relentless bullying and extortion she'd faced on social media, it sent a shock wave to parents around the world.
Carol Todd holds a photo of her late teenage daughter Amanda Todd, who died by suicide in 2012, and the necklace she was wearing in the school photo as she speaks outside B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., on Friday, October 14, 2022. When B.C. teenager Amanda Todd sat in front of her computer and detailed the relentless bullying and extortion she'd faced on social media, it sent a shock wave to parents around the world.
"What happened to these children was neither an accident nor a coincidence. It was a foreseeable result of deliberate design decisions that they make to maximize engagement over safety," said Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is handling the case.Google said the allegations are not true.
Todd began using Facebook in 2008. The platform was new and her mother, like most people in the world, thought it was designed to be fun and safe. Todd soon became trapped in years of extortion. The lawsuit includes the family of another Canadian teenager who died more than a decade after Todd's case captured headlines across the country.
Bergman said the lawsuit argues that "these are dangerous products … and foreseeably cause harm to kids." They are designed to get increased engagement from youth by showing more extreme material while encouraging them to interact more with the platform, he said, and it leads to addiction and psychological damage.
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