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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta was sued by a group of 33 states in a major lawsuit on Tuesday for allegedly misleading the public over addictive features targeting children, marking both the latest legal challenge against the social media giant and the latest claim social media harms younger users.headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California. Meta will focus on ushering in a future of the metaverse and beyond.
The platform, according to the suit, “repeatedly misled the public” about “substantial dangers” for its younger users, and engaged in “deceptive and unlawful conduct in violation of state and federal law” and TikTok , and just ahead of Snapchat . More than one-third of teenagers in the study said they use at least one social media app “almost constantly.”from the U.S.
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