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21-01-2022, 03:57 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) - Meta Platforms Inc and Snap Inc are to blame for the suicide of an 11-year-old girl who was addicted to Instagram and Snapchat, the girl's mother alleged in a lawsuit.
The woman claims her daughter Selena Rodriguez struggled for two years with an "extreme addiction" to Meta's photo-sharing platform and Snap's messaging app before taking her life last year.
Thursday's (Jan 20) complaint in San Francisco federal court isn't the first lawsuit to blame a youth's suicide on social media
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The backlash against social media isn't limited to the US. The father of a 14-year-old in the UK touched off a firestorm when he blamed her 2017 suicide partly on Instagram.
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Ms Tammy Rodriguez, who lives in Connecticut, said when she tried to limit her daughter's access to the platforms, the girl ran away from home. She took her daughter to a therapist who said "she had never seen a patient as addicted to social media as Selena," according to the suit.
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Social media companies have been largely successful fending off lawsuits blaming them for personal injuries thanks to a 1996 federal law that shields Internet platforms from liability for what users post online.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...ls-suicide
SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) - Meta Platforms Inc and Snap Inc are to blame for the suicide of an 11-year-old girl who was addicted to Instagram and Snapchat, the girl's mother alleged in a lawsuit.
The woman claims her daughter Selena Rodriguez struggled for two years with an "extreme addiction" to Meta's photo-sharing platform and Snap's messaging app before taking her life last year.
Thursday's (Jan 20) complaint in San Francisco federal court isn't the first lawsuit to blame a youth's suicide on social media
......
The backlash against social media isn't limited to the US. The father of a 14-year-old in the UK touched off a firestorm when he blamed her 2017 suicide partly on Instagram.
......
Ms Tammy Rodriguez, who lives in Connecticut, said when she tried to limit her daughter's access to the platforms, the girl ran away from home. She took her daughter to a therapist who said "she had never seen a patient as addicted to social media as Selena," according to the suit.
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Social media companies have been largely successful fending off lawsuits blaming them for personal injuries thanks to a 1996 federal law that shields Internet platforms from liability for what users post online.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...ls-suicide
