Meta and Snap lawsuit for 11-year-old suicide

A mother from Connecticut filed a lawsuit against the parent Meta of Facebook, Instagram, and Snap, claiming the platforms caused the addiction her daughter suffered before she killed herself at age 11 last July.kidssocial

Engadget uploaded it treatment in scribd Ms. Selena says she "struggled for more than two years with an extreme addiction to Instagram and Snapchat," a claim backed by an outside therapist who "had never seen a patient so addicted to social media."

Although she was too young to be on either platform according to their terms of service (for Instagram and Snapchat the minimum age for account is 13) Selena had accounts.

The mother admits the absence of a parent , but also the lack of robust age verification controls, which made it nearly impossible to police her daughter's access to these services.

“The only way for Tammy Rodriguez to limit access to defendants' products would be to confiscate them της Selena που είχαν δυνατότητα σύνδεσης στο διαδίκτυο”, ισχυρίζεται η ,” which caused Selena to scramble to access her accounts from other devices.”

The use of the services, Rodriguez claims, made her daughter suffer from depression, sleep deprivation, absenteeism from school, had eating disorders, self-harm and eventually led her to suicide.

Rodriguez claims that Snapchat's "unknown and changing rewards" "look like a slot machine, but are aimed at teenage users who are even more prone to gambling."

Similarly, Instagram's features "seek to exploit the sensitivity of users with rewards that come in the form of likes and followers." This is extremely detrimental to teen and pre-teen users whose is not yet fully developed, particularly in the areas of “impulse control and risk assessment”.

The allegations in the lawsuit reflect some of the concerns expressed by Francis Haugen. Among the documents leaked to news outlets by Haugen was an internal investigation showing that Instagram could be detrimental to the well-being of users, especially young girls, as well as internal documents describing loss of young users as an “existential threat” to the business.

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  1. Instead of taking shape and dipping her head in the first corner of the walls of her house, she turns against those who (clearly !!) are addicted,… shape and direct dumb.

    Too bad the kid.

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