Millions of people are addicted to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others. A large percentage of those addicted to social media are children and young adults. For these vulnerable users, social media addiction can be very harmful and lead to things like eating disorders, depression, and in some cases suicide.
Now social media companies are facing a wave of new lawsuits alleging that they knowingly designed the algorithms of their platforms to lure young people into harmful addictions.
Our national mass tort lawyers are currently seeking social media addiction lawsuits from individuals who became addicted to social media before age 21 and suffered a serious physical injury as a direct result of that addiction. Physical injuries resulting from social media addiction could include suicide, self-harm, or an eating disorder.