Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth safety lawsuits
A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural battle in court. The lawsuits, brought by attorneys general and families, allege that Meta, Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Snap knew their products were addictive to children and teens and harmful to their mental health, but continued marketing them to young users for profit. The tech companies tried to appeal against a federal court ruling that…