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Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits
The company removed more than a dozen ads after recent losses in two trials and amid more than 3,300 pending addiction lawsuits in California.
- On April 9, Meta Platforms began removing recruitment ads from Facebook and Instagram seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits alleging the company designed its platforms to be addictive to young users.
- A California verdict found Meta negligent for addictive design harms to users under 18, and a separate New Mexico judgment ordered Meta to pay $375 million in damages, prompting the removals.
- More than 3,300 addiction lawsuits are pending in California state court, with law firms including Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law using social media to recruit plaintiffs for the litigation.
- Meta spokesman Andy Stone stated the company will "not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful," citing terms of service clauses to mitigate adverse legal impacts.
- Ads for these cases persist on Google, where the Social Media Victims Law Center continues advertising, while mass tort television ads nationwide reached 671 in March, according to advertising tracker Rustin Silverstein.
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Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits
Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users.
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Two weeks after a California jury found Meta negligent in a landmark social media addiction case, the company has started removing ads on its own platforms from attorneys seeking plaintiffs for related lawsuits. Axios identified more than 12 deactivated ads from firms, including Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law, which had been running on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger. — Read the rest The post Meta is pulling ads that recruit plaint…
New Mexico Attorney General to propose mandated child safety protections in Meta bench trial
Kevin Huff, an attorney for Meta, makes closing statements March 23, 2026, in a trial held in New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe over the state’s lawsuit against Meta. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)A New Mexico judge denied Meta’s request to postpone a bench trial in New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s ongoing case against the social media giant. In an announcement Thursday, Torrez said the decision paves the way for…
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