11月2日：Snapchat母公司Snap Inc的原告律师周一表示，两名青少年提起的诉讼在庭审期间达成和解。两名青少年称，该公司将平台设计成令人上瘾，导致他们出现抑郁、焦虑和饮食失调。案上周开始遴选陪审团。是洛杉矶州法院审理的第二起由年轻人提起的诉讼，他们称自己在Snap、Meta Platforms、TikTok和Alphabet旗下YouTube将平台设计成鼓励强迫性使用之后对社交媒体上瘾。
Nov 2 : Snapchat parent Snap Inc has reached a settlement during a trial over claims brought by two teenagers who say the company designed the platform to be addictive, causing their depression, anxiety and eating disorders, attorneys for the plaintiffs said on Monday. Jury selection began last week for the trial, the second in Los Angeles state court over claims brought by young people who say they became addicted to social media after Snap, Meta Platforms, TikTok and Alphabet's YouTube designed their platforms to encourage compulsive use.
原告此前已与Meta、TikTok和YouTube达成和解。
The plaintiffs had previously settled with Meta, TikTok and YouTube.
原告K.D.B.的庭审律师约翰·摩根和艾米莉·杰夫科特在一份声明中表示：“我们的最终目标是让这些社交媒体公司为其行为如何影响全国数百万儿童承担责任，而这些和解使我们能够继续朝着这一目标推进。”
"Our ultimate goal is to hold these social media companies accountable for how their actions have impacted millions of children across the country, and these settlements allow us to keep building toward that goal," John Morgan and Emily Jeffcott, trial attorneys for plaintiff K.D.B., said in a statement.
该案原本将是Snap在这场关于社交媒体对青少年影响的广泛诉讼中的首场庭审，此前该公司已就其他原定开庭的案件达成和解。公司首席执行官埃文·斯皮格尔此前预计将出庭作证。案是从数千起待审诉讼中选出的风向标案件，旨在检验针对Snap及其他公司的诉求，并可能影响类似案件的解决方式。据原告律师称，下一批风向标庭审定于3月开始。
CNA Games Guess Word Crack the word, one row at a time Buzzword Create words using the given letters Mini Sudoku Tiny puzzle, mighty brain teaser Mini Crossword Small grid, big challenge Word Search Spot as many words as you can Show More Show Less The trial was set to be the first for Snap in the sweeping litigation over social media's impact on teens, after the company settled the other cases that had been scheduled for trial. The company's chief executive, Evan Spiegel, had been expected to testify. The case had been selected from thousands of pending lawsuits as a bellwether intended to test the claims against Snap and the other companies and potentially influence how similar cases are resolved. The next bellwether trials are scheduled to begin in March, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers.
Snap发言人在一份声明中表示，公司已建立防护措施、推出安全教程并与专家合作，并始终致力于“持续加强我们社区的安全、隐私和福祉”。原告S.J.（伊利诺伊州一名16岁女孩）和K.D.B.（密西西比州一名18岁青年）称，她们最早从3岁起就开始使用YouTube，大约9岁时开始使用其他平台，并形成了强迫性使用习惯，她们将此归咎于自动播放和无尽滚动等功能。些公司否认其平台被设计成让年轻人上瘾，并表示已采取行动，使这些应用成为年轻人安全表达自我的场所。
A Snap spokesperson said in a statement that the company has built safeguards, launched safety tutorials and partnered with experts, and remains committed to “continually strengthening the safety, privacy, and well-being of our community." Plaintiffs S.J., a 16-year-old girl from Illinois, and K.D.B., an 18-year-old from Mississippi, say they began using YouTube as early as age 3 and the other platforms around age 9, developing compulsive habits they blame on features such as autoplay and infinite scroll. The companies have rejected claims their platforms were designed to addict young people, and say they have taken action to make the apps safe places for young people to express themselves.
社交媒体公司在美国联邦和州法院面临数千起诉讼，起诉方包括个人、学区、市政当局和其他政府实体，他们指控这些公司明知故犯地试图让儿童对其平台上瘾，从而助长了涉及焦虑、抑郁和自杀的青少年心理健康危机。
Social media companies face thousands of lawsuits in federal and state courts brought by individuals, school districts, municipalities and other government entities alleging the companies knowingly sought to addict children to their platforms, contributing to a youth mental health crisis involving anxiety, depression and suicide.
在首例进入庭审的案件中（该案于3月结束），洛杉矶的一个陪审团认定Meta和YouTube存在过失，并判给一名年轻女性600万美元的损害赔偿金。
In the first case to go to trial, which ended in March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube had been negligent and awarded a young woman $6 million in damages.
接下来被选中进行庭审的两名青少年要么达成和解，要么放弃了对这些公司的索赔。首个被选中参加庭审的学区与所有公司达成了和解。
The next two teens whose cases were selected for trials either settled or dropped their claims against the companies. The first school district chosen for trial settled with all of the companies.
8月，Meta与几乎所有州和美国属地达成了价值高达180亿美元的和解协议，以了结各州总检察长就其平台伤害青少年提起的诉讼，并同意对Instagram和Facebook面向青少年的运作方式做出改变。协议将其中50亿美元的赔付条件设定为各州与Snap、TikTok和YouTube达成类似和解。
In August, Meta struck settlements worth up to $18 billion with nearly every state and US territory to resolve lawsuits brought by attorneys general over claims its platforms harmed teens and agreed to make changes to how Instagram and Facebook work for teens. The deal conditioned $5 billion of the payout on the states reaching similar settlements with Snap, TikTok and YouTube.