A bipartisan slate of states are alleging Meta's addictive features on Facebook and Instagram violated a federal privacy law and state consumer protections.
More than 30 states filed a federal lawsuit against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, alleging the platforms’ apps are designed to be addictive and harm children’s mental health..
The suit specifically claims Meta allegedly violated a federal children’s online privacy law, and state consumer protection laws by making its products addictive and then lying about how they harm children’s mental health. Eight states and the District of Columbia also filed state lawsuits claiming Meta violated their consumer protection laws.
If successful, the states’ lawsuits could force Meta to change the way it designs and markets its platforms to the public, and lead to hefty fines. The legal strategy has drawn comparisons to the various lawsuits filed against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, which led to hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, and changed how the industry markets its products.
The lawsuit is the largest state-led challenge alleging a social media company violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and consumer protection laws, and follows a similar strategy used by Indiana, Arkansas and Utah, which have each filed state consumer protection lawsuits against TikTok in the past year.
The lawsuits are designed to circumvent Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a decades-old law that protects platforms from being held liable for most content users post. The consumer protection lawsuits don’t target specific content and instead assert that Meta or TikTok deceived the public about the safety of children on their apps.
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