Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount
The complaint says the companies knew their platforms were addictive and harmful, and Meta alone reported $2.4 billion in legal expenses last quarter.
- On Thursday, families from Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Tennessee filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Delaware against Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, alleging the platforms caused four teenagers' deaths between July 2024 and September 2025.
- The complaint filed by the Social Media Victims Law Center alleges the teens suffered 'years of escalating harms' including addiction, severe sleep deprivation, and suicidal ideation from platform use, while the companies knew they were causing harm to young users.
- Founding attorney Matthew Bergman of the Social Media Victims Law Center stated the companies' 'actions have eroded public trust, misled policymakers, and created a national youth mental health crisis that has already cost us a generation and will take years to repair.'
- Reporting $2.4 billion in legal expenses during the second quarter, Meta faces a 14% profit decline and is heading to trial in Oakland, California, to face separate state lawsuits filed in 2023.
- Sacha Haworth, executive director of The Tech Oversight Project, noted that 'while Congress has dragged its feet, more children have died,' despite the Senate passing the Kids Online Safety Act two years ago.
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The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths.
Families Sue Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube over Deaths of Four Teens
CBS News The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, alleging that using the social media platforms led to severe mental health and physical issues that resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, claims that the teens suffered years of harm from using the platforms, including social media addiction, severe sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety a…
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