Connecticut suing Meta for harming children's mental health: It's 'behavioral cocaine'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : To comply with federal regulation, social media companies ban kids under 13 from signing up to their platforms -- but children have been shown to easily get around the bans, both with and without their parents' consent, and many younger kids have social media accounts.
45% : Other investigations -- including into TikTok -- are active and ongoing and we will not hesitate to use the full weight of our enforcement authority to force this broken industry to respect the law and the safety and wellbeing of our children," Tong said.
44% : A group of 33 states including Connecticut is suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people's mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platformsThe lawsuit filed in federal court in California also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents' consent, in violation of federal law.
43% : "Attorneys general today are blanketing the country in coordinated federal and state court actions to hold Meta accountable for their blatant violations of consumer protection and child privacy laws.

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