New York sues TikTok, Facebook and YouTube for mental health harm
New York City is suing TikTok, Facebook and YouTube for “harming the mental health of children and adolescents.”
According to the indictment, Meta, Snap, ByteDance and Google have “knowingly built and marketed their platforms to attract, entrap and addict young people”.
This initiative is reminiscent of the lawsuit filed in 2022 in California.
Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of TikTok, Snap, X and Discord were questioned for nearly four hours by US senators. Lawmakers wanted to know what they are doing to protect children online.
Zuckerberg apologized to families who say their children have been harmed by social media during a hearing in the US Senate.”I’m sorry for everything you’ve been through, it’s terrible. No one should have to go through what your families have suffered,” said Zuckerberg, who runs Instagram and Facebook.
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