A group of parents in the United States filed a complaint with the Los Angeles Supreme Court through the Social Media Victims Legal Center association.
Meta, Snapchat and TikTok for pointing this out social networks promote eating disorders, suicide and harm the mental health of young people and do nothing to prevent it.
The lawsuit also points out that these companies prioritize their growth over the safety of their users.
For this reason, there are 20 more cases in California, and it is claimed that the algorithms of these platforms are also broken. Increase dangerous content.
The text of the lawsuit demonstrates that this business model, used by all defendants, promotes engagement and growth over user safety.
The Social Media Victims Legal Center believes that companies can and should take steps to prevent these issues. However, none of them made it to stay competitive against the rest of the platforms.
As background, there is already a proposal in Europe that requires tech companies to be responsible for what appears on their platforms.
The Digital Services Regulation, or DSA for its English acronym, is expected to require algorithmic transparency and legal liability from platforms.
Increasing criticism about the role of social networks in society and its impact on people’s mental health has increased in recent months, and companies such as: TikTok or YouTube cannot control the barrage of dangerous content that spills into their domains every day and is ineffective.
In addition, the moderators of the platforms are taking legal action against their employers due to the working conditions they have to comply with when viewing, selecting and reporting content that harms users.
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