NEW YORK CITY: Mayor Eric Adams stated on Wednesday that his administration has filed a lawsuit towards social media corporations, together with Meta’s Fb and Instagram for fuelling psychological well being disaster among the many youth.
The lawsuit, filed within the California Superior Court docket, additionally contains Alphabet’s YouTube, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok and alleges that the corporations deliberately designed their platforms to “purposefully manipulate and addict youngsters and teenagers to social media purposes”.
Meta, TikTok and YouTube already face a whole lot of lawsuits filed on behalf of kids and college districts over the addictiveness of social media.
“Over the previous decade, we’ve got seen simply how addictive and overwhelming the net world may be, exposing our kids to a continuous stream of dangerous content material and fuelling our nationwide youth psychological well being disaster,” Adams stated in a press release.
Social media corporations have come beneath intense scrutiny as regulators push them to guard youngsters from dangerous content material. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg final month apologised to households at a US Senate listening to concerning the affect that social media has on youngsters. The businesses didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The lawsuit, filed within the California Superior Court docket, additionally contains Alphabet’s YouTube, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok and alleges that the corporations deliberately designed their platforms to “purposefully manipulate and addict youngsters and teenagers to social media purposes”.
Meta, TikTok and YouTube already face a whole lot of lawsuits filed on behalf of kids and college districts over the addictiveness of social media.
“Over the previous decade, we’ve got seen simply how addictive and overwhelming the net world may be, exposing our kids to a continuous stream of dangerous content material and fuelling our nationwide youth psychological well being disaster,” Adams stated in a press release.
Social media corporations have come beneath intense scrutiny as regulators push them to guard youngsters from dangerous content material. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg final month apologised to households at a US Senate listening to concerning the affect that social media has on youngsters. The businesses didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
