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Tracking Social Media Litigation: A Quick Guide for After-School Advocates

A tool for youth development, after-school, and summer program advocates to help them understand current litigation against social media companies and find resources for tracking updates in the courts and in their states.
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Tracking Social Media Litigation: A Quick Guide for After-School Advocates

For young people, an antidote for addictive, manipulative technologies like social media is an abundance of people and places that protect them, prevent harm, and promote well-being. Across the country, states, schools, localities, Native nations, and families are suing social media companies for the harms caused to youth by their addictive platforms, that could result in millions of dollars flowing to state and local governments to remediate harms through positive youth development programs such as after-school and summer programs.

This resource covers current litigation against social media companies and tracks updates in the courts. If you have any corrections or updated information for this resource, please contact [email protected].