The lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of 11 families who say their children suffered physical and mental harms because of social media platforms.
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. TTHE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The lawsuit names tech juggernauts Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — along with Snapchat, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Discord and Google, which owns YouTube. The latest lawsuit points to internal documents and research, including from the Facebook Papers, which were released by a whistleblower. It quoted Meta documents saying, “the young ones are the best ones. You want to bring people to your service young and early.”
The lawsuit alleges there were several steps Meta could have taken to make its product safer for minors and could prevent strangers from reaching out to children. The lawsuit also represents American parents who say their children became depressed and suicidal because of the social media platforms.
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