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Social Media Algorithm & Youth Mental Health Liability

·9 mins
Industries Social Media Algorithm Liability Youth Mental Health Section 230 Product Liability MDL Design Defect
The Youth Mental Health Crisis Meets Product Liability # Social media platforms face a historic legal reckoning. Thousands of lawsuits allege that platforms’ algorithmic design intentionally maximizes engagement at the cost of children’s mental health, driving addiction, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicide. Courts are increasingly willing to treat recommendation algorithms as products subject to liability, rather than neutral conduits protected by Section 230.