The world's largest social media firms are bracing for landmark trials this year, seeking to hold them accountable for harm to child users. Opening arguments for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, begin this week.
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, and Google’s YouTube are set to face claims their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. This follows TikTok and Snap, previously named in the lawsuit, settling for undisclosed sums.
The social media addiction trials beginning today, which involve hundreds of parents and school districts, are “only the first case,” with new families daily joining legal action against Big Tech for its “deliberately harmful products,” stated Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project.
