Lawsuit alleges social media giants buried their own research on teen mental health harms | CNN Business

New York  — 

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know exactly how addictive their platforms can be to teens. And they continue to target teen users anyway.

Those are allegations a group of school districts is making in a lawsuit against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents.

“IG (Instagram) is a drug … we’re basically pushers,” Meta researchers said in an internal chat, according to the filing.

An internal TikTok report noted that “minors do not have executive mental function to

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