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