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YouTube and TikTok settled in June and Snap reached a tentative settlement in the case, Bloomberg reported on Monday
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RKC, who started using social media when he was about eight, said he became addicted to it, losing sleep and suffering from depression and anxiety, according to court filings.
Key facts
- The lawsuit, brought by a 15-year-old boy known as RKC, originally named four defendants, Google’s YouTube, Meta’s Instagram, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok
- That trial lasted six weeks and ended with the two companies being ordered to pay a young woman $6m in damages
- In a separate lawsuit in March brought by New Mexico’s attorney general, a jury ordered Meta to pay $375m in civil penalties over claims that it misled consumers about the safety of its platforms
- The dropped case comes after Meta and YouTube suffered a bruising loss in March in the same Los Angeles court
Summary
A Florida teen whose lawsuit claimed Meta ’s platforms were to blame for his depression and anxiety dropped his case against the company days before the trial in Los Angeles was set to start, his attorneys said on Wednesday. The lawsuit, brought by a 15-year-old boy known as RKC, originally named four defendants, Google’s YouTube, Meta’s Instagram, Snap Inc’s Snapchat and ByteDance’s TikTok. “In light of the overall successful result of the litigation and his concerns about enduring a grueling weeks-long trial, he has elected to withdraw his claims against Meta,” attorneys for RKC said in a statement. A spokesperson for Meta said RKC had dropped the claims without receiving any payment.