{"id":1022960,"date":"2026-07-23T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022960"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:04:31","slug":"teen-plaintiff-suing-meta-over-mental-health-harms-drops-his-claims-against-company-days-before-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/teen-plaintiff-suing-meta-over-mental-health-harms-drops-his-claims-against-company-days-before-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen plaintiff suing Meta over mental health harms drops his claims against company days before trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida teen whose lawsuit claimed Meta&#8217;s platforms were to blame for his depression and anxiety dropped \u200chis case \u2060against \u2060the company just days before the trial in Los Angeles was set to start, his attorneys said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, brought by a \u206015-year-old boy \u200cknown as R.K.C., originally named four defendants, \u2060Google&#8217;s YouTube, Meta&#8217;s Instagram, Snap Inc&#8217;s Snapchat and ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok, but YouTube and TikTok settled in June. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported on Monday that Snap had reached a tentative settlement \u200cin the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida teen whose lawsuit claimed Meta&#8217;s platforms were to blame for his depression and anxiety dropped \u200chis case \u2060against \u2060the company just days before the trial in Los Angeles was set to start, his attorneys said on Wednesday. The lawsuit, brought by a \u206015-year-old boy \u200cknown as R.K.C., originally named four defendants, \u2060Google&#8217;s YouTube, Meta&#8217;s Instagram, Snap Inc&#8217;s Snapchat and ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok, but YouTube and TikTok settled in June. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Snap had reached a tentative settlement \u200cin the case.<\/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-1022960","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\/1022960","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=1022960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022986,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022960\/revisions\/1022986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}