New York Sues Social Media Companies for Creating “Youth Mental Health Crisis”

New York City accused the companies behind Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube of designing their social media platforms to be addictive to young users, spurring a mental health crisis that has burdened city resources, in a federal public nuisance lawsuit Wednesday.

“Borrowing heavily from the behavioral and neurobiological techniques used in slot machines and exploited by the cigarette industry, defendants deliberately embedded in their platforms an array of design features aimed at maximizing youth engagement to drive advertising revenue,” the city wrote in a 327-page lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York.

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