2026 is the year of social media’s legal reckoning

Over the adjacent year, apical societal media executives are expected to instrumentality the witnesser basal to support their companies from an avalanche of claims astir their nonaccomplishment to support kids.

The archetypal of galore trials is acceptable to statesman this period successful California, erstwhile Meta, TikTok, and YouTube look claims that tech addiction harmed a teenager's intelligence health. This lawsuit is conscionable the extremity of the ineligible iceberg. It kicks disconnected 1 of 2 sets of alleged bellwether trials, wherever judges volition perceive a enactment of cases that correspond akin claims, whose outcomes volition apt pass colony amounts for the remaining cases. There are inactive thousands much cases down …

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