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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Shiena Iane B Enerio

Social Media Giants Face Massive Lawsuit for Downplaying Teen Mental Health Risks

Social media apps in a mobile phone. (Credit: Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay)

A massive lawsuit awaits Facebook's parent company, Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok for gatekeeping information about how addictive their platforms can be to young users, but they continue targeting teen subscribers anyway.

A group of school districts gathered to file a lawsuit against the four social media giants, CNN reported, citing a recently unsealed legal filing that cited the companies' internal documents.

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