Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta dropped

After one day Snap initially settled with the plaintiff In a lawsuit over social media addiction, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant, the case was dropped. Meta said in a statement that the plaintiff chose to drop his case against Meta without receiving any money.

Google’s TikTok and YouTube previously reached settlement agreements with the plaintiff. (Snap confirmed on Tuesday that a tentative agreement had been reached.)

The jury trial was scheduled to begin next week in California Superior Court in Los Angeles.

The plaintiff, a Florida teenager known by the initials “RKC,” had sued social media companies for creating addictive platforms. It was one of thousands of similar lawsuits filed by teens, schools and state attorneys general that accused big tech companies of intentionally creating addictive platforms.

The precedent this lawsuit and others would have set would have affected how companies build their apps, known for features that keep people engaged, like infinite scrolling and constant notification buzz.

Below is the plaintiff’s decision to drop the case Meta lost in a New Mexico case earlier this yearwhich marked her first courtroom defeat for social media harms. Meta was ordered to pay $375 million in fines after the company was found to have misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangered children.

In March, a Los Angeles jury awarded both Meta and Google Another defeatThe defendant in this case was granted some 6 million dollars In damages.

Meta was prepared to say that the plaintiff in this case allegedly only used his Facebook and Instagram accounts for an average of minutes per day, and was planning to claim that most of his accounts were created after hiring an attorney.

“This result makes clear that we will not back down from defending ourselves against baseless lawsuits,” Meta said in her statement.