Posts Tagged 'social media'

Social Media Companies on Defense as Barriers and Protections Show Weakness

social media companies brace for loss of liability shieldFor anyone following technology with any regularity, one thing has been blatantly apparent for quite some time: our capabilities in the digital world have accelerated far beyond the capacity of our legal structures to cope with and regulate them. Couple that with a legislature limited by its own lack of technological prowess and the influence of lobbyists, and there was never a question of if present day ...

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Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Move to Consolidated Status

Meta facing class action lawsuit over social media addictionThe Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation recently met to consider whether to consolidate a number of lawsuits alleging that social media companies – in particular, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta – specifically design their applications to addict their users. Ultimately, the decision was to send the 75 federal lawsuits to the United States District Court in the Northern District of California.

Plaintiffs allege that ...

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