A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s ‌Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in ​the litigation.

  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    I don’t understand how the fuck it’s still operational. There is nothing about that shit game that anyone cares about unless they’re 9, or an obvious pedophile. Not even like the Epstein ones, they go the classic trafficking route… Roblox is the To Catch a Predator ones.

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      18 hours ago

      All its “content” is basically built by children or adult devs trying to hook children. I don’t like that dynamic at all. It really is child labor.