Facebook Addiction Lawsuit for Minors: Who Qualifies and How Parents File in 2026
PublishedJune 4, 2026
UpdatedAugust 27, 2026
Parents are bringing individual injury claims over Facebook and Messenger, alleging Meta built the News Feed, Groups and notifications to hook minors. These are personal-injury cases in MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255, not a class action — so there is no claim form, and eligibility turns on your child’s diagnosis and use history.
Status (August 27, 2026)Intake Firms Accepting Casesindividual personal-injury claims coordinated in MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255 — not a class action with a single fund; the federal docket held 3,137 pending cases in the JPML's August 3, 2026 report
DefendantMeta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook)Instagram is also a Meta product — Facebook and Instagram claims are usually brought together against Meta
Also Happening Now29-State Child Safety Trial (Oakland)a separate government enforcement case against Meta opened August 18, 2026 before the same judge — it does not pay families
Facebook-Specific TheoriesNews Feed Algorithm · Groups · Messenger / Messenger Kidsdistinct from the Instagram body-image and Reels theory, though often filed together
Who May QualifyParents of Minors Under 18 at Time of Usedocumented mental-health harm tied to heavy Facebook use during minor years
Cost to You$0free case evaluation; no obligation to retain a firm
Filing WindowLimited (Varies by State)most states give 2-6 years from injury or discovery; tolling rules apply for minors
Settlement Update — August 2026
Three things moved in August 2026, and none of them is a settlement for families.
• Meta settled with the states for up to $17.1 billion on August 26, 2026. Eight days into the Oakland trial, Meta and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general filed a proposed consent judgment resolving the claims of 47 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. Meta commits to about $12.1 billion paid to the states over ten years, with roughly $5 billion more owed only if Snap, TikTok and YouTube settle on comparable terms, alongside five years of product changes for users under 18. Judge Gonzalez Rogers called it a good step forward and said she expected to approve it, but did not enter the judgment that day. The agreement states that it is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing. Full breakdown: the $17.1 billion state settlement, and why it carries no claim form.
• Meta went on trial in Oakland on August 18, 2026. A bipartisan coalition of 29 state attorneys general tried People of the State of California v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., No. 4:23-cv-05448 (N.D. Cal.), before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers — the same judge who runs MDL 3047. California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey led the claim that Facebook and Instagram were designed to hook young users, and all 29 states alleged Meta collected data from under-13 users without parental consent in violation of COPPA. The trial ended in the settlement above before the evidence closed, so the court never ruled on liability. Background: what the 29-state trial was actually about.
• New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million on August 6, 2026. A state judge in Santa Fe found Meta had created a public nuisance and ordered the money into a five-year child mental-health fund, plus product changes for minors. That followed an earlier phase in which a jury ordered $375 million on consumer-protection findings.
None of these pays an individual family. All three were brought by state governments, so the money goes to the states — the $17.1 billion settlement creates no consumer fund and no claim form. They matter here for a different reason: the documents and testimony developed for the Oakland trial, including internal Meta research, engagement-goal emails, and testimony from former safety staff, are the same evidentiary material the individual injury cases in MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255 rely on, and Meta chose to pay rather than finish the trial. The individual track described on the rest of this page is unchanged. The state settlement does not release any family’s injury claim, intake firms are still reviewing cases, and there is still no global settlement covering minors’ injury claims. The next personal-injury bellwether trial in California’s coordinated proceeding is scheduled for October 2026.
What the Facebook Addiction Lawsuit Is About
The Facebook addiction lawsuits are individual personal-injury cases brought by parents on behalf of minor children who allegedly suffered mental-health harm from heavy Facebook use. They are not a single class action and there is no class action settlement to file a claim under. The cases are coordinated in two main forums: the federal multidistrict litigation known as MDL 3047 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the parallel California state-court coordinated proceeding known as JCCP 5255.
The complaints generally allege that Meta Platforms, Inc. — the company that operated Facebook before rebranding from Facebook, Inc. to Meta on October 28, 2021 — designed the Facebook product to maximize teen engagement at the expense of teen mental health. The Facebook-specific design choices at issue include the algorithmic News Feed and its engagement-based ranking, Facebook Groups and their recommendation system, friend-recommendation features such as “People You May Know,” push notifications, Facebook Reels and Watch, Messenger, and the under-13 Messenger Kids app. Plaintiffs cite Meta's own internal research (the Facebook Files), the U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on social media and youth mental health (May 2023), and the broader body of evidence developed in MDL 3047.
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Who Qualifies for a Facebook Addiction Case
The typical fact pattern in Facebook-related personal-injury claims filed under MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255 includes each of the following:
• The user was a minor (under 18) during heavy Facebook use.
• A documented mental-health diagnosis. Diagnoses raised in the docket include major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge-eating disorder), body dysmorphic disorder, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidality (ideation, attempts, or completed suicide).
• Evidence of Facebook use during the relevant period. Examples raised in similar matters include device screen-time reports, parental-control logs, Facebook account-creation records, downloaded Facebook account data, saved Group or Messenger screenshots, and prior reports to school counselors or pediatricians.
• Timeline correlation. Provider notes or other contemporaneous records that document a connection between Facebook use and the onset or worsening of the diagnosis.
Eligibility is fact-specific. The free case review on this page routes to a licensed intake firm partner that evaluates the particular facts and decides whether the case fits the Facebook / Meta docket.
Facebook vs. Instagram — How the Cases Differ
Facebook and Instagram are both Meta products and both are named in MDL 3047, and because most affected teens used both apps, the two are usually litigated together inside a single Meta complaint rather than as separate lawsuits. What differs is the factual emphasis:
• The Instagram theory centers on image-driven, body-image and social-comparison harm — the algorithmic Feed and Explore tab, Reels, beauty and face-altering filters, and like-count comparison dynamics. It is the surface where Meta's own research famously found body-image harm for teen girls. For that deep dive, see the dedicated Instagram addiction lawsuit page.
• The Facebook theory centers on the algorithmic News Feed ranking, Facebook Groups as a vector for harmful communities, the friend-recommendation system, notifications, and contact between minors and strangers or adults via Messenger and Messenger Kids.
In practice an intake firm looks at the minor's full Meta-product history and brings whichever theories the facts support — frequently both Facebook and Instagram under one claim against Meta.
MDL 3047 & JCCP 5255 — What They Are
MDL 3047 is the federal multidistrict litigation captioned In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in October 2022. It is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California before Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The MDL coordinates federal cases against multiple social media defendants including Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Google (YouTube), Snap (Snapchat), and ByteDance (TikTok). Meta is the highest-profile defendant in the MDL, in large part because the internal documents disclosed in the Facebook Files form a substantial part of the plaintiffs' evidentiary base. Cases filed in federal courts around the country are transferred to MDL 3047 for coordinated pre-trial proceedings, including discovery, motion practice, and bellwether trials.
JCCP 5255 is the California state-court coordinated proceeding handling similar cases filed in California state court. It runs in parallel to MDL 3047 and covers cases that for jurisdictional reasons remained in state court rather than going to the federal MDL. Most of the same defendants — including Meta — are in JCCP 5255 as well.
Bellwether trials are how the MDL is testing how juries respond to specific fact patterns. Two have now produced results. In the California state proceeding, a Los Angeles jury in the K.G.M. case found Meta and YouTube liable on March 25, 2026 and awarded $6 million; the trial judge denied both companies' post-trial motions in early June 2026, and both filed notices of appeal in July 2026. On the federal side, the first MDL 3047 bellwether — a Kentucky school district's case, Breathitt County Board of Education v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. — settled for a combined $27 million in May 2026 before trial, with Meta paying $9 million. The next federal bellwethers, also school-district cases, are set for February 2027. Bellwether outcomes do not directly resolve any other plaintiff's case, and the Breathitt settlement paid a school district for institutional costs rather than any family.
The Facebook Files & News Feed Evidence
The Facebook Files are the September 2021 Wall Street Journal series based on internal Meta research disclosed by whistleblower Frances Haugen. They are named after Facebook the company, which rebranded to Meta on October 28, 2021 — weeks after the disclosures. While the most widely reported findings concerned Instagram's body-image effects on teen girls, the broader disclosures dealt directly with Facebook's own products, including:
• Internal documents describing how Facebook's 2018 engagement-based ranking change — branded internally as “Meaningful Social Interactions” (MSI) — amplified divisive, sensational, and harmful content in the News Feed.
• Research showing that engagement-optimized ranking rewarded content that provoked strong reactions, and that the company's own staff flagged the downstream effects.
• Evidence that Meta studied the well-being effects of its products on younger users and was aware of harm patterns across the platform.
Plaintiffs in the Facebook cases rely on these documents (and the testimony Haugen gave to the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection on October 5, 2021) as evidence that Meta knew about the harm patterns and continued the design choices anyway. That “knew or should have known” element is central to the failure-to-warn and design-defect theories that drive the Facebook complaints in MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255.
The Specific Allegations Against Facebook / Meta
The Facebook complaints in MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255 generally allege the following design and conduct claims, depending on the specific plaintiff:
• Engagement-based News Feed ranking. Plaintiffs allege Facebook's algorithmic News Feed was optimized for time-on-app and reaction-driven engagement rather than user well-being, and that this ranking pushed harmful, sensational, and comparison-driving content to teen users.
• Facebook Groups as a harm vector. Plaintiffs allege the Groups recommendation system surfaced and amplified harmful communities — pro-eating-disorder groups, self-harm communities, and other content that targeted vulnerable teens.
• Engagement-maximizing design features. Infinite scroll, autoplay video, intermittent variable rewards, push notifications, reaction counts, and friend-recommendation prompts are alleged to drive compulsive use at the expense of mental health.
• Stranger and adult contact. Plaintiffs allege friend-recommendation features (“People You May Know”) and Messenger surfaced adult strangers to minor accounts, and that child-safety controls were inadequate.
• Inadequate age verification. Plaintiffs allege Facebook's age-gating mechanisms were easily bypassed, allowing pre-teens to create accounts representing themselves as older, and that the platform did little to actually enforce age limits.
• Failure to warn. Plaintiffs allege Meta knew — from its own internal research — of the harm patterns but did not adequately warn teen users or their parents.
Meta has denied the allegations and is defending the cases. The company has publicly cited safety features it has rolled out — Teen Accounts with private-by-default settings, daily time limits, sensitive-content controls, supervised accounts via the Family Center, and parental controls on Messenger — as evidence of voluntary improvement.
Messenger & Messenger Kids
A distinct strand of the Facebook docket involves contact between minors and strangers or adults through Facebook's messaging products:
• Messenger. Plaintiffs allege Facebook Messenger allowed adult strangers to reach minor accounts with inadequate safeguards, and that friend-recommendation features surfaced unknown adults to children. Messenger contact is a common factual element in cases that involve grooming, harassment, or exposure to harmful content.
• Messenger Kids. Meta launched the under-13 Messenger Kids app in December 2017, marketing it as a parent-controlled environment. In 2019 a design flaw allowed children to enter group chats with users who had not been approved by a parent — undercutting the central safety promise of the product. Plaintiffs cite the rollout and that flaw as evidence of a pattern of prioritizing growth among young users over safety.
Claims involving Messenger and Messenger Kids are fact-specific and usually turn on saved message evidence, the minor's age and account history, any reports made to Meta, and the resulting mental-health diagnosis. An intake firm has to review the particular facts.
Evidence Intake Firms Look For in Facebook Cases
For a Facebook-specific addiction case, the documentation that helps an intake firm fastest is:
• Mental-health records. Provider notes, hospital admission records, eating-disorder treatment records, residential or partial-hospitalization records, ER visits for psychiatric reasons. These establish the diagnosis and severity.
• Facebook-specific use evidence. Account creation date if available, downloaded screen-time reports from iOS or Android showing Facebook hours, parental-control software logs, the device's app-download history, and exported Facebook account data (login history, activity logs) where available.
• Saved Group and Messenger content. Screenshots of harmful Groups content, harassing or grooming Messenger messages, or Messenger Kids chats with unapproved users — saved contemporaneously where possible.
• Age verification. Birth certificate, school records, pediatrician records — anything establishing the minor's age during the use period.
• Provider notes that mention Facebook specifically. Doctor or therapist notes that record the patient or family describing Facebook-related triggers (Group content, Messenger harassment, comparison anxiety from the News Feed). These are powerful because they pre-date the litigation.
• Contemporaneous parental complaints or interventions. Emails to school counselors, reports to Facebook's support channels, screenshots saved at the time, prior visits to pediatricians about social-media-related concerns.
Most of this documentation is collected during case workup, not at the initial intake. The intake firm typically just needs a basic factual picture to decide whether to open a file.
Facebook Addiction Litigation Timeline
Key milestones in the Facebook / social media addiction docket:
• Sept 13, 2021 — The Facebook Files. The Wall Street Journal begins publishing leaked Meta internal research, including documents on Facebook's News Feed ranking and the company's research into harm among younger users. The disclosures become a foundational evidentiary basis for the addiction docket.
• Oct 5, 2021 — Haugen Senate testimony. Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, describing Meta's internal research and asserting the company knew its platforms harm children but prioritized engagement over safety.
• Oct 28, 2021 — Facebook becomes Meta. Facebook, Inc. rebrands its parent company to Meta Platforms, Inc., weeks after the Facebook Files. Meta remains the named corporate defendant for Facebook-product claims.
• Oct 6, 2022 — MDL 3047 created. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidates social media adolescent addiction cases as In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 3047, before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (N.D. Cal.). Meta — Facebook and Instagram — is the lead-defendant target.
• May 23, 2023 — U.S. Surgeon General Advisory. Vivek Murthy issues an official advisory citing evidence that adolescents using social media more than three hours per day face roughly double the risk of poor mental-health outcomes.
• Oct 24, 2023 — 41 state AGs sue Meta. A bipartisan coalition of 41 state attorneys general files suit against Meta, alleging Facebook and Instagram are designed to be addictive and harmful to minors. Many state-court suits are later coordinated alongside the federal MDL.
• Jan 20 & Jan 27, 2026 — Snap and TikTok settle mid-trial. During the K.G.M. bellwether trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, Snap settles on January 20 and TikTok on January 27, on undisclosed terms, leaving Meta and YouTube to face the jury.
• March 9, 2026 — Tolbert v. Meta filed.Tolbert v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., Case No. 4:26-cv-02005 (N.D. Cal.), filed before Judge Gonzalez Rogers. The complaint names Meta, Google/YouTube, ByteDance/TikTok, and Snap as defendants, with Meta — Facebook and Instagram — as the lead-named defendant.
• March 25, 2026 — Bellwether verdict. A Los Angeles jury in the K.G.M. JCCP 5255 case finds Meta and YouTube liable and awards $6 million — $3 million compensatory and $3 million punitive — with Meta responsible for 70 percent and YouTube for 30 percent. It is the first jury verdict in a social media addiction case.
• May 21, 2026 — First federal bellwether settles for $27 million.Breathitt County Board of Education v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., the lead school-district case in MDL 3047, settles weeks before its Oakland trial. Meta pays $9 million, Snap and TikTok $8 million each, and YouTube about $2 million. The companies admit no wrongdoing, and the deal covers a district's institutional costs rather than any family's injury claim.
• Early June 2026 — Post-trial motions denied. The K.G.M. trial judge denies Meta's and Google's motions to overturn the verdict or grant a new trial, leaving the $6 million award intact.
• July 2026 — Both defendants appeal. Meta files a notice of appeal in early July and YouTube follows on July 13, 2026, so the K.G.M. verdict is not final.
• Aug 6, 2026 — New Mexico orders $567 million. A state judge in Santa Fe finds Meta created a public nuisance and orders the company to pay $567 million into a five-year child mental-health fund and to change how its products work for minors, including turning off push notifications for under-18 users during school hours and overnight. It follows the March 2026 jury phase that ordered $375 million on consumer-protection findings. The money funds state programs rather than individual claims.
• Aug 12 & Aug 18, 2026 — The 29-state trial opens in Oakland. Jury selection is held August 12 and opening statements are delivered August 18 in People of the State of California v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., No. 4:23-cv-05448 (N.D. Cal.), before Judge Gonzalez Rogers. California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey lead the design and consumer-protection claims; all 29 states allege Meta violated COPPA by collecting under-13 users' data without parental consent. An eight-member advisory jury hears the evidence, but the judge decides liability and any penalty or injunction. The states have asked the court to order likes and infinite scroll removed for young users. In a July 7, 2026 filing Meta disclosed that the states' theory implies a theoretical ceiling of roughly $1.4 trillion in statutory penalties, a figure Meta called unsupported; the attorneys general said before trial that something closer to $200 billion was more realistic. Meta denies the allegations and no ruling has been entered. See OCA's explainer on the 29-state trial.
• Aug 18–25, 2026 — First witnesses. Former Meta safety engineer Arturo Béjar testifies first, after the judge rejects Meta's late bid to bar him. Psychology professor Jean Twenge follows, on adolescent mental-health trends. Instagram head Adam Mosseri is expected on the stand the week of August 25, and Mark Zuckerberg is expected before the evidence closes. The trial was scheduled to run about six weeks.
• August 25, 2026 — Where the individual cases stand. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's report dated August 3, 2026 puts MDL 3047 at 3,137 pending cases, up 244 from the July report, out of 3,312 filed into the MDL since it was created. California's JCCP 5255 cases are counted separately. Intake firms are still accepting cases, and no global settlement with Meta covering individual minors' injury claims has been announced.
• February 2027 — Next federal bellwethers. With Breathitt resolved, Judge Gonzalez Rogers has set Tucson Unified School District (Arizona) and Charleston County School District (South Carolina) as the next school-district bellwethers, with jury selection February 3, 2027 and opening statements February 8, 2027.
If Your Child Used Multiple Platforms (Most Cases)
Most Facebook addiction plaintiffs also used Instagram, and many used TikTok, Snapchat, or YouTube during the same period. This is normal and does not weaken a case — intake firms routinely take the full social-media-use history during evaluation. Because Facebook and Instagram are both Meta products, they are usually brought together against Meta as a single defendant; non-Meta platforms are added as additional defendants. A claim can be brought against multiple defendants simultaneously; the eventual allocation of liability among defendants is something the litigation works out through discovery and trial.
In practice, multi-platform cases are often filed as a single complaint naming all relevant defendants (Meta for Facebook and Instagram, plus TikTok, Google, Snap). The Tolbert v. Meta complaint filed March 9, 2026 is a recent example of the four-defendant structure. The intake firm makes the strategic call about which defendants to name based on the specific facts and the strength of the evidence for each platform.
Statute of Limitations for Facebook Addiction Cases
Statutes of limitations on personal-injury claims vary by state. Most states give 2 to 6 years from the date of injury or the date the injury was reasonably discovered. Several rules can extend or shorten the window:
• Minority tolling. Many states “toll” (pause) the statute of limitations until the minor reaches age 18, then start the clock. So a minor who was harmed at age 14 may have until age 20 or 24 (depending on state) to file rather than the clock running while they're still a minor.
• Discovery rule. Some states extend the deadline when a parent only later connected a mental-health condition to Facebook use. The clock runs from the date of discovery rather than the date of harm in those states.
• Specific statutes. Some states have separate statutes for specific kinds of injuries (suicide / wrongful death is sometimes treated differently from depression / self-harm).
Statutes of limitations can be shortened or extended by individual circumstances. Because timing is fact-specific and the window can close quickly, an intake firm has to review the particular facts to confirm whether a case is timely. Earlier is always better.
How to Start a Facebook Addiction Case Review
There is no public class action claim form for Facebook addiction cases. To start, you complete a free case review with an intake firm that handles social media addiction cases. The process typically runs:
• Step 1 — Free case review. A short questionnaire about the minor's age, diagnosis, Facebook use, and timeline. Takes a few minutes; no obligation, no upfront cost.
• Step 2 — Intake firm evaluation. The firm reviews the questionnaire against current Facebook / Meta intake criteria. If it looks like a fit, they reach out for follow-up.
• Step 3 — Records collection. The firm collects mental-health records, device screen-time data, and other documentation needed to develop the case.
• Step 4 — Filing. If the firm takes the case, they file in MDL 3047, in JCCP 5255, or in another appropriate forum depending on jurisdiction.
• Step 5 — Litigation. The case proceeds through the coordinated MDL or JCCP discovery and bellwether process.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the 29-state Meta trial in Oakland pay families?
No. The trial that opened August 18, 2026 is a government enforcement case brought by 29 state attorneys general — People of the State of California v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., No. 4:23-cv-05448 (N.D. Cal.) — not a class action for individuals. Any civil penalties would be paid to the states, and the states are also asking Judge Gonzalez Rogers to order changes to Facebook and Instagram for young users. There is no claim form and no fund for parents in that case. Individual family claims run on the separate personal-injury track described on this page. Meta denies the allegations and no ruling has been entered. OCA's trial explainer covers what is actually at stake.
Is there a Facebook class action settlement I can file a claim for?
Not for the addiction docket. The Facebook addiction cases are individual personal-injury lawsuits, not a class action with a single claim form. There are separate, unrelated Facebook / Meta settlements involving different alleged harm (privacy, tracking, biometrics) that have their own claim processes.
How is this different from the Instagram lawsuit?
Both are Meta products named in MDL 3047 and are usually filed together against Meta. The Instagram theory emphasizes image-driven, body-image and comparison harm (Feed, Reels, filters); the Facebook theory emphasizes the algorithmic News Feed, Groups, friend recommendations, and Messenger / Messenger Kids contact. If your child used both, an intake firm typically brings both under one Meta claim. See the Instagram addiction lawsuit page for that side.
Does it cost anything to file a Facebook addiction case?
Completing the free case review on this page costs nothing. Whether and how a law firm charges fees if they take your case is set in the engagement agreement you sign with that firm — ask the firm directly about their fee structure before signing.
My child completed suicide and we believe Facebook was a factor. Can we still file?
These are some of the most serious cases in MDL 3047 and intake firms are reviewing them. Wrongful-death rules vary by state and are typically brought by the estate's personal representative. Statutes of limitations can be very short for wrongful-death claims in some states — speak to an intake firm soon if you believe a claim may exist.
Will an intake firm take my case if my child's diagnosis isn't on the listed conditions?
Possibly. The conditions listed above are the most commonly reviewed, but the firm makes the actual eligibility call based on the specific facts. If the diagnosis isn't on the typical list but the use pattern and harm are well-documented, it's still worth submitting for review.
Is OCA the firm handling these cases?
No. OpenClassActions.com is a consumer news site, not a law firm. The free case review on this page is routed to a licensed intake firm partner that handles social media addiction cases. OCA may earn a fee from referrals, which is disclosed under FTC rules.
About This Page
This page is general legal-process information, not legal advice. OpenClassActions.com is a consumer news site and is not a law firm or a settlement administrator. Whether any individual qualifies for the Facebook addiction docket depends on facts an intake firm or law firm has to review case-by-case. Some links on this page are sponsored.
Instagram Addiction Lawsuit: The other Meta product — body-image and comparison harm from Feed, Reels, and filters, usually filed alongside Facebook. See who qualifies →
Social Media Addiction Lawsuit (Master Page): The full multi-platform overview of MDL 3047 and JCCP 5255 across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Read the overview →
Tolbert v. Meta: A March 2026 four-defendant complaint naming Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, and Snap in N.D. Cal. See the case →
YouTube Addiction Lawsuit: Google/YouTube claims over algorithmic recommendation and compulsive-use design for minors. See who qualifies →
TikTok Addiction Lawsuit: ByteDance/TikTok claims over the For You algorithm and teen mental-health harm. See who qualifies →