{"id":37407,"date":"2026-08-10T23:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37407"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:17:27","slug":"meta-other-tech-companies-denied-appeal-over-addiction-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37407","title":{"rendered":"Meta, other tech companies denied appeal over addiction lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/Ehtp4z1PV-oQ4FD2zplvBvWPsVA=\/1366x768\/smart\/2023\/07\/31\/173244-1690824764511.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Appeals Court said Monday that thousands of lawsuits targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/01\/meta-cloud-mark-zuckerberg\" target=\"_blank\">Meta Platforms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/02\/17\/trump-tiktok-ban-charlie-kirk\" target=\"_blank\">ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok<\/a> and other social media outlets can proceed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>The lawsuits argue that the platforms are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/09\/meta-social-media-addiction-ads\" target=\"_blank\">addictive<\/a> and harmful to young people, and have prompted several tech companies to attempt to stamp them out in a years-long process. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go deeper: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/09\/meta-social-media-addiction-ads\" target=\"_blank\">Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation<\/a><\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Appeals Court said Monday that thousands of lawsuits targeting Meta Platforms, ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok and other social media outlets can proceed. The big picture: The lawsuits argue that the platforms are addictive and harmful to young people, and have prompted several tech companies to attempt to stamp them out in a years-long process. Editor&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/Ehtp4z1PV-oQ4FD2zplvBvWPsVA=\/1366x768\/smart\/2023\/07\/31\/173244-1690824764511.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}