US EditionNevada Attorney General Targets YouTube with New Lawsuit for 'Harmful Impacts' on Young Users
- Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a civil lawsuit on Monday accusing YouTube of targeting children and causing harm to their mental health.
- The lawsuit follows Ford’s ongoing litigation against other social media platforms, citing deceptive practices that exploit youth for corporate profit.
- Ford’s office alleges YouTube creates an addictive environment using notifications, endless scrolling, and algorithmic targeting, despite Google denying these claims.
- Ford emphasized that protecting consumers is a fundamental duty of his office, especially when it comes to safeguarding the young people of Nevada.
- The lawsuit intensifies legal scrutiny on social media’s impact on youth, with a Snapchat trial scheduled for January 2027 and policy debates worldwide about minimum age limits.
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Nevada Attorney General targets YouTube with new lawsuit for 'harmful impacts' on young users
The social media giant YouTube is being sued by Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford's office for allegedly being harmful for children.The civil lawsuit which was announced Monday alleges that YouTube and its corporate parents, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc., have deliberately engaged in deceptive practices through "product design choices and public misrepresentations" that target children using their platform.Ford's office claims these practices ca…
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