9th Circuit Clears Path for Thousands in Social Media Addiction Lawsuits
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap alleging their platforms are designed to be addictive to young users to proceed, rejecting that Section 230 immunity bars the claims and ruling the appeal premature. The decision leaves the litigation in federal court in Oakland before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, while Meta’s bid to pause a separate state AG trial was denied; earlier California verdicts found negligence, and New Mexico has levied hundreds of millions in penalties against the company.