Meta is heading to trial against 29 states over claims it addicted kids to social media

Jury selection began Wednesday in Oakland; potential damages could approach Meta's $1.5 trillion market cap

Tech giant Meta is being accused of designing social media platforms that violate privacy and enable social media addiction in children. Jury selection in the trial begins today. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson has more on the case.

Meta faces a high-stakes trial in California over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to keep minors hooked. A coalition of U.S. states is seeking sweeping changes to the platforms and potentially up to $1.4 trillion in penalties.

The case is seen as the biggest test yet of youth social media litigation

Meta Platforms META.O, Google's GOOGL.O YouTube, TikTok parent ByteDance and Snap Inc SNAP.N are facing thousands of lawsuits brought by states, school districts and individuals alleging they intentionally designed their platforms to keep young users hooked.

Meta, 29 states head to court in biggest test yet of youth social media litigation  Reuters

Aug 12 : Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms

Social media platforms will face a bevy of new restrictions in New Jersey that limit their use of children’s data and restrict algorithmic content recommendations to minors, among a range of others.

Introduced in June 2026 by Canadian Culture Minister Marc Miller, Bill C-34 would ban social media for users under 16. In the past year alone, tech giants have spread a slew of problematic content, including TikTok posts promoting extreme thinness, ads for cocaine on Facebook and sexually explicit deepfakes created by

The arrested have been identified as PA Abdul Salam, KH Mohammed Hussain and PA Abbas, all residents of Vengola in Ernakulam district.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed ​thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's, Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap Inc's, Snapchat over claims they designed their products to be ‌addictive to young users.

A US appeals court allows over 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat to proceed, claiming these companies designed their products to be addictive to young users

A U.S. court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to proceed against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok and Snap Inc’s Snapchat over claims they designed their products to be addictive to youth.

A lower court ruling had required them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits filed in federal court.

A U.S. Appeals Court said Monday that thousands of lawsuits targeting Meta Platforms, ByteDance's TikTok and other social media outlets can proceed. The big picture: The lawsuits argue that the platforms are addictive and harmful to young people, and have prompted several tech companies to attempt to stamp them out in

Officials told platforms to verify children’s ages using government-issued documents, like identity cards. But the companies have balked, apparently over privacy concerns.

Cheap use of AI tools is over: "For the last three years, the most expensive experiment in technology history has run on someone else's money." Businesses now need to put guard rails in place, a tech commentator says.

Hong Kong should follow international peers in legislating to bar children under 16 from social media to combat cyberbullying and addiction, education experts and lawmakers have said, while stressing the need for broad social consensus. At a panel discussion on Saturday to examine proposals to restrict social media acc