Tag: social media addiction

Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits

[ad_1] On Tuesday, Meta was served a lawsuit by more than 30 US states, including 8 individual lawsuits from states, over the alleged use of features in Instagram and Facebook to lure children to the platform and get them hooked on harmful content. This fresh case has again opened the longstanding issue of companies exploiting children, one of the most vulnerable demographics of any digital user base in order to gain profit. However, Meta is not the only one to blame here. For years, many tech firms including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have faced similar lawsuits for failing to protect underage users.Protecting children online: The PremiseSo, if you have come across numerous news articles about Meta's lawsuit, you might be curious to know why is there a need to protect childre...
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Meta sued by over 30 US states for features designed to lure children to Instagram, Facebook
24Oct By adminNo Comments
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Meta sued by over 30 US states for features designed to lure children to Instagram, Facebook

[ad_1] In a shocking move, more than 30 US States, including California, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms over the allegations of using features in Instagram and Facebook to lure children to the platform and get them hooked on harmful content. The lawsuit also alleges that Meta also exploited minors for its own profit. The lawsuit is the latest in the growing scrutiny of social media platforms over how they treat the youth and safeguarding measures to protect them from harmful content. The lawsuit has been filed in the northern district of the State of California in the District Court, as per a report by The New York Times. The case will now assess whether Meta, which is the parent company behind social media platforms such as Facebook, I...
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Meta Sued by Its Home County Over Social Media Addiction
26Mar By adminNo Comments
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Meta Sued by Its Home County Over Social Media Addiction

[ad_1] Meta Platforms Inc. was sued by the school board in the company's home county for allegedly addicting students to its social media platforms and contributing to a mental health crisis.The San Mateo County Board of Education added the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to a complaint it filed March 13 against other social media giants, including Google, TikTok and Snap. Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, is about four miles from the county seat in Redwood City. The complaint is similar to a first-of-its-kind suit filed in January by the Seattle public school district which alleges the companies designed their platforms to be addictive and to deliver harmful content to adolescents and teens. A handful of other school districts in locales from Florida to Arizona ha...
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Mark Zuckerberg Was Warned on Social Media Addiction, Filing Shows
14Mar By adminNo Comments
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Mark Zuckerberg Was Warned on Social Media Addiction, Filing Shows

[ad_1] Employees at Meta Platforms Inc. and ByteDance Inc. were aware of the harmful effects of their platforms on young children and teenagers but disregarded the information or in some cases sought to undermine it, court filings show.The revelations were disclosed in a lawsuit over social media addiction that had been filed previously but with key portions sealed from public view. An unredacted version filed over the weekend in federal court in Oakland, California, offers details about how much engineers and others, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, knew about the harms of social media and their misgivings about it. “No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day,” one Meta employee wrote in 2021, according to the filing. “But that's...
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Blaming TikTok for Harming Students Is Easy. Proving It Isn’t
4Feb By adminNo Comments
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Blaming TikTok for Harming Students Is Easy. Proving It Isn’t

[ad_1] About half of adolescents have had a mental health disorder at some point in their lives, and some school districts are putting at least part of the blame on social media companies that they say addict America's youth. It won't be easy to prove in court, but Seattle schools will try, having sued over the issue. They blame companies like Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc. and ByteDance Ltd., the owner of TikTok Inc., for contributing to the mental health crisis among students and say the addictive apps interfere with their ability to fulfill their educational mission. “Social media really is harming the ability of students to learn and for teachers to teach, and students experiencing the mental health crises are performing worse in school, all of which is directly affecting the ...
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Roblox and Discord Sued Over Girl’s Sexual Exploitation
6Oct By adminNo Comments
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Roblox and Discord Sued Over Girl’s Sexual Exploitation

[ad_1] Roblox and Discord face a case alleging sexual exploitation of an 11-year-old girl by a predator while playing online games. Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. are the latest targets in a wave of lawsuits over social media addiction, in a case alleging an 11-year-old girl was exploited by a sexual predator while playing online video games.The girl became acquainted with adult men through Roblox and Discord's direct messaging services, which she thought had safeguards protecting her, according to a statement by her lawyers at the Seattle-based Social Media Victims Law Center who have brought numerous other addiction cases. Wednesday's complaint in state court in San Francisco also blames Snap Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. for the girl's mental-health difficulties and suicide attempts....
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