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A mother is suing Snap and Meta, alleging that Snap’s Snapchat social network and Meta’s Instagram photo site contributed to her 11-year-old daughter’s extremity by suicide. The lawsuit, reported earlier by Engadget, was rubbed Thursday in the District Court’s Northern District of California in San Francisco. It alleges wrongful death as well as violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law.

The lawsuit alleges that the extremity of Selena Rodriguez, who died July 21, 2021, was transported or contributed to by “Selena’s addictive use of and exposure to defendants’ unreasonable dangerous and unsuitable social media products.”

Meta and Snap “have invested billions of bucks to intentionally design their products to be addictive and wait on use that they know to be problematic and highly detrimental to their users’ sullen health,” the lawsuit alleges. “Internal, non-public data collected by Instagram and Snapchat voice large numbers of its users — particularly teenage girls — are involving in problematic use of its products.”

Snap said it can’t comment on graceful litigation but that it is working “with many sullen health organizations to provide in-app tools and resources for Snapchatters as part of our ongoing work to keep our shared safe.”

“We are devastated to hear of Selena’s passing and our hearts go out to her family,” a Snap spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Meta didn’t today respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit alleges Snap and Meta planned their social media platforms to cause addiction through “psychological manipulation techniques.”

The allegations caused against Meta and Snap include:

• Strict liability based on “defective produce of their social media products that renders such products not reasonably safe for fabulous consumers in general and minor users in particular.”
• Strict liability based on the companies’ failure to devoted adequate warning for minors and their parents of the sullen, physical and emotional damage that could be caused by amdroll their platforms.
• Common law negligence from “unreasonably dangerous social assume products and their failure to warn of such dangers.”
• Breach of California’s Unfair Competition Law.

Tammy Rodriguez is demanding a ground by jury and seeks relief including for the past substantial and mental pain and suffering of Selena Rodriguez and the loss of enjoyment of life. The suit also seeks relief for the loss of Selena Rodriguez’s services, comfort, care, society and companionship; loss of future averages and earning capacity of Selena Rodriguez; and punitive damages. 

An natty is also sought “to stop the harmful conduct alleged herein, remedy the unreasonably dangerous algorithms in their social assume products and provide warnings to minor users and their parents that Defendants’ social assume products are addictive and pose a clear and picture danger to unsuspecting minors.”

Instagram and Snapchat
, along with YouTube and TikTok, have been investigated by Congress for their impact on teens.