Mayor Eric Adams, the City and NYC Health + Hospitals filed a lawsuit against social media companies alleging they target children.
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On Feb. 14, Mayor Adams announced the City and NYC Health + Hospitals filed a lawsuit against Facebook/Meta, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok, alleging the five social media giants targeted school-aged children and fueled a youth mental health crisis. The complaint draft accuses the companies of “a strategy of growth-at-all-costs, recklessly ignoring the impact of their platforms on children’s mental and physical health.
“One of the things that we want to make sure is, particularly in] Black and brown communities, making sure that parents, caregivers schools have the resources they need to address this issue,” said Avula. “We know that resources are often disparate as well, and so ensuring that people have the proper resources to equip them with guiding kids and looking at some of the factors that are affecting kids.
“We want teens to have safe, age-appropriate experiences online, and we have over 30 tools and features to support them and their parents,” said a Meta spokesperson. “We’ve spent a decade working on these issues and hiring people who have dedicated their careers to keeping young people safe and supported online.”
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