Court Documents Reveal Tech Companies Prioritized Teen Addiction in Social Media Design
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Summary
Newly unsealed court documents from the 2026 social media addiction trials reveal that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok executives deliberately designed their platforms to addict children and teens, with internal communications showing youth addiction was their 'top priority.' The documents detail tactics used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt parent organizations like the PTA to control the narrative about social media's harms to children's wellbeing.
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The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing
Newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials
Youth addiction was their 'top priority' according to internal communications
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