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In re Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 3047)

Social media addiction
Ongoing
MDL formed Oct 6, 2022
AI system / company
Meta/Instagram, Snap/Snapchat, TikTok/ByteDance, Google/YouTube
Jurisdiction
United States (federal)
Court / regulator
U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal. (Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers)
Status
Ongoing

What happened

Consolidated federal multidistrict litigation gathering thousands of personal-injury claims, hundreds of school-district suits, and state attorney general actions alleging that social media platforms were designed to maximize adolescent screen time and foster addiction, causing emotional and physical harms including death. By early 2026 it included more than 10,000 individual cases and nearly 800 school-district lawsuits. Snap and TikTok reached settlements in January 2026 ahead of the first bellwether trial.

About social media addiction cases

Claims that platforms were deliberately engineered to maximize compulsive use — infinite scroll, autoplay, variable-reward notifications — causing measurable harm, especially to minors.

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