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States sue Meta over youth mental health harms
A bipartisan coalition of 42 state attorneys general filed suit alleging Meta knowingly designed Instagram features that harm teen users.
Read MoreInstagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and other platforms were engineered to keep kids scrolling. If your child suffered depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, or worse — you may be entitled to compensation. This is about holding Big Tech accountable.
Internal company research — some of it now made public in court filings — showed that major platforms were aware their products caused measurable mental health harm to teenagers, particularly girls. That research was not acted on.
Features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and algorithmic feeds weren't accidents. They were deliberately engineered to maximize the time developing brains spend on-screen, exploiting well-understood reward pathways.
Today, dozens of state attorneys general and thousands of families have filed suit against Meta (Instagram, Facebook), TikTok / ByteDance, Snap, and Google / YouTube. Federal courts have already ruled that these cases can proceed.
If your family was affected, you may have a right to compensation — and to help stop this from happening to others.
Parents were never told how these platforms were engineered. You couldn't have known what the companies themselves buried in internal reports. This isn't about what you missed — it's about what a multi-billion-dollar industry hid from every family in America.
Holding these companies accountable protects other families too.
These are the harms most commonly linked to teen social media use in current litigation.
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A bipartisan coalition of 42 state attorneys general filed suit alleging Meta knowingly designed Instagram features that harm teen users.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal
Leaked internal research revealed the company documented mental health harms to teenage users and did not disclose them.
Read MoreNPR
A multidistrict litigation covering thousands of family claims against Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube will move forward.
Read MoreAP News
The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory citing a significant risk of harm to youth mental health from social media platforms.
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