On October 24, 2023, forty-one states and the District of Columbia are suing Meta, accusing the parent company of Instagram and Facebook of concealing the adverse effects their platforms have on children and adolescents and deploying harmful contents that target those youth.
In one filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 33 states joined in a complaint saying the company’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and social realities of a generation of young Americans.” Similarly, the seven states and the District of Columbia they are filing complaints in their own state courts and Florida is filing its own federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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