Families across the country are taking legal action against Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube over addictive designs linked to serious mental-health harm in teens and young adults. Find out if your family may qualify, free and confidential.
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For many families, what looked like ordinary phone use turned into something far more serious. A growing body of internal company research, government advisories, and court filings alleges that major social media platforms were deliberately engineered to keep children scrolling, through infinite feeds, autoplay, algorithmic recommendations, and constant notifications, at a real cost to young users’ mental health.
If your child or a young person in your care developed serious mental-health struggles connected to heavy social media use, you are not alone, and you may have legal options. A free, confidential case review can help you understand them, with no obligation.
DO YOU QUALIFY?
You or your child may be eligible to file a claim if:
INJURIES & HARMS COVERED
Claims commonly involve young users who experienced one or more of the following, linked to compulsive platform use:
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WHAT THE LAWSUITS ALLEGE
The claims center on three core allegations:
Addictive by design. Plaintiffs allege platforms used persuasive, reward-based features to maximize screen time among adolescents whose brains are still developing.
Failure to warn. Lawsuits allege the companies did not adequately warn users or parents about known mental-health risks.
Concealed internal research. Court filings allege that some companies had internal data showing harm to young users and did not act on it.
These cases are consolidated in a federal Multidistrict Litigation (MDL No. 3047) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and in a coordinated California state-court proceeding (JCCP 5255). Defendants include Meta (Instagram and Facebook), Snap (Snapchat), TikTok, and YouTube (Google).
Recent development: In March 2026, a California jury returned a $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in the first case of its kind to reach a jury. This is a past result in a different case and does not predict or guarantee the outcome of any other claim.
WHY ACT NOW
Legal deadlines (statutes of limitations) apply to these claims and vary by state. For minors, the filing clock is often paused until adulthood, but evidence cannot wait. Therapy notes, medical records, school records, and device-usage history are easier to preserve now than later. A free review today tells you where you stand and helps protect important evidence. There is no obligation to move forward.
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