Social Media Lawsuits 2023- Why Booming Lawsuits Against Social Media?
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The Seattle
public school district launched social
media lawsuits against social media companies at the start of the year,
accusing them of ruining the mental health of the teenagers. TikTok, Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat are just a few of the social media behemoths
named as defendants in the legal case against social media addiction.
Each time you
use one of your favorite social media platforms, dopamine signals in your brain
increase. The concerned neurotransmitters are related to pleasure. When a user
receives a like, retweet, or emoticon remark, the brain floods with dopamine
and releases it via reward pathways.
The public
school district in Seattle filed a lawsuit against social media, marking the
country's first case of its kind. Similar complaints, however, were made in
2022 by a large number of families, blaming social media for the suicides.
The important
truth is that there are over 100 schools with around 50,000 students in
Seattle's public school system. The complaint asserts that social media
addiction and its repercussions prevent schools from providing students with a
comprehensive education.
The case brought
against Snap Inc., Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., and ByteDance, the owner
of TikTok, alleged that these companies intentionally created their products to
draw young people to their platforms and so cause a mental health crisis.
Experts in the
medical and legal fields compare social media litigation to cases involving
defective products, the fight against opioids, and cases
involving vaping.
We can see how pervasive media addiction is among American youth when social
media addiction is contrasted with the opioid issue.
A motion to
consolidate all additional Instagram addiction harm claims in federal courts
into a new class action was submitted to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict
Litigation (JPML) in August 2022 by one of the claimants suing Meta for
Instagram addiction harm. MDL
All claims were
consolidated into a new "class action" MDL in October 2022 by the
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (In re: Social Media Adolescent
Addiction/Personal Injury Prod. Liab. Lit. - MDL No. 304). The Northern
District of California received the MDL since it is home to the majority of the
defendants. 28 pending cases from 17 different judicial districts were combined
by the JMPL.
The JPML decided
on January 2, 2022, to consolidate all cases in the social media lawsuits into
a class action MDL in the Northern District of California. Currently, there are
roughly 80 lawsuits pending in federal courts. Though all social media networks
will be involved in the new class action MDL's social media addiction cases,
Meta is the target of 70% of them.
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