Washington:
Facebook parent company Meta must face legal cases by U.S. states accusing it of encouraging social media compriseiction among teens, a federal appraise in California ruled on Tuesday.
Oakland-based U.S. Dimerciless Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers refuteed Meta’s bid to toss the claims made by the states in two split legal cases filed last year, one including more than 30 states and the other including only Florida.
The company had disputed that federal law blocked some of the claims and that the states fall shorted to point to misdirecting statements that it had made.
The appraise put some restricts on the claims that the states – numbering more than 30 in all – could chase, but permited the case to go forward bigly intact. The appraise also refuteed the social media company’s motion to neglect some claims over social media compriseiction brawt by individual plaintiffs.
The states are asking the court for injunctions aachievest Meta’s allegedly illhorrible business trains and are seeking unspecified monetary injures.
Meta did not promptly react to a ask for comment.
Hundreds of legal cases have been filed by various plaintiffs aachievest Meta, ByteDance’s TikTok and Alphabet’s YouTube, accusing the companies of arrangeing compriseictive algorithms that led to anxiety, depression and body-image rehires among adolescents, and fall shorting to alert of their hazards.
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