{"id":1002199,"date":"2026-04-10T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002199"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:03:59","slug":"meta-pulls-ads-aimed-at-recruiting-plaintiffs-for-social-media-addiction-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/meta-pulls-ads-aimed-at-recruiting-plaintiffs-for-social-media-addiction-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users. <\/p>\n<p>Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the company is actively defending itself against the lawsuits, which include thousands of cases in both state and federal courts in California, and is removing the ads. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful,&#8221; Stone said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said the company is actively defending itself against the lawsuits, which include thousands of cases in both state and federal courts in California, and is removing the ads. &#8220;We will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful,&#8221; Stone said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}