Amanda Todd's family joins American parents in lawsuit against social media giants

HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.world – 78 points – Amanda Todd's family joins American parents in lawsuit against social media giants
ctvnews.ca

The lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court earlier this month on behalf of 11 families — two of whom are Canadian — who say their children suffered physical and mental harms because of social media platforms. It alleges that some of the world's largest technology companies knowingly designed and marketed defective products to kids in order to boost engagement numbers.

Some kids took their lives after they were targeted by strangers in sextortion, where a person threatens to expose sexually compromising information or images. Others developed eating disorders, depression and had to be hospitalized.

The lawsuit names tech juggernauts Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — along with Snapchat, TikTok's parent company ByteDance, Discord and Google, which owns YouTube.

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And when the children are not being targeted online they are being shot at in school

And when they're not being shot at in school, Republicans are raping them.

Don’t forget religious leaders! They are raping then too

stop paying attention to guns and social media, and let's get back to focusing on the REAL threat to the kids: gay books in the library!