9th Circuit Court of Appeals

A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)

A US federal appeals court declined to dismiss approximately 2,400 consolidated lawsuits alleging that Meta, Alphabet, and other social media companies deliberately designed addictive features harming youth mental health — enabling the cases to proceed to discovery.