{"id":155887,"date":"2026-08-10T19:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155887"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:28:15","slug":"us-court-allows-thousands-of-lawsuits-against-tech-firms-over-social-media-addictionunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155887","title":{"rendered":"US court allows thousands of lawsuits against tech firms over social media addictionUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA US appeal court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta \u2060Platforms, Alphabet\u2019s Google, ByteDance\u2019s TikTok, and other \u2060social media companies over claims they designed their products to \u2060be addictive to young users.<br \/>\nThe San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies\u2019 bid to reverse a lower court\u2019s ruling forcing them to face some 2,400 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court.<br \/>\nThe companies, which also include Snap Inc\u2019s Snapchat,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3363578\/us-court-allows-thousands-lawsuits-against-tech-firms-over-social-media-addiction?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA US appeal court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta \u2060Platforms, Alphabet\u2019s Google, ByteDance\u2019s TikTok, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}