The lawsuit filed in federal court in California also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent.
Dozens of US states are suing Meta for harming young people and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms.
“Its motive is profit, and in seeking to maximise its financial gains, Meta has repeatedly misled the public about the substantial dangers of its social media platforms. “Kids and teenagers are suffering from record levels of poor mental health and social media companies like Meta are to blame,” said New York attorney general Letitia James in a statement.
“We’re disappointed that instead of working productively with companies across the industry to create clear, age-appropriate standards for the many apps teens use, the attorneys general have chosen this path,” the company added.The broad-ranging suit is the result of an investigation led by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Vermont.
After the first reports, a consortium of news organisations, including the Associated Press, published their own findings based on leaked documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen, who has testified before Congress and a British parliamentary committee about what she found.
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