Mass. Justice Won’t Toss Unfair Acts Suit Against Meta Over ‘Addictive’ Instagram

( October 25, 2024, 8:34 AM EDT) -- BOSTON— A Massachusetts justice denied a dismissal motion filed by Meta Platforms Inc. and Instagram LLC in a suit filed against them by the commonwealth of Massachusetts alleging that the defendants engaged in unfair and deceptive practices by falsely using design features on the Instagram social media platform they wrongfully claimed were not addictive, resulting in purported physical and mental harm to teenaged users, finding that Massachusetts sufficiently alleged that the harm could have been avoided “and that such harm was not outweighed by Instagram’s countervailing benefits.”...

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