Boston Jumps Into Social Media Addiction MDL

Boston has joined the growing social media addiction MDL, which consolidates claims by minors and their families alleging that platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube designed and deployed addictive features that caused documented mental health injuries, eating disorders, self-harm, and suicide. The MDL centralizes discovery and pretrial proceedings across dozens of individual lawsuits filed in state and federal courts nationwide. Boston's entry expands the geographic scope of coordinated litigation and may signal increased state-level engagement with these claims.

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