{"id":1026234,"date":"2026-08-05T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026234"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:48:19","slug":"tiktok-settling-three-teen-social-media-lawsuits-ahead-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/tiktok-settling-three-teen-social-media-lawsuits-ahead-of-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok settling three teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has agreed to settle three lawsuits brought by young people who accuse social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive and harming their mental health, a plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer said MondayThe terms of the settlements are confidential and subject to the finalisation of written settlement agreements with TikTok, according to Joseph VanZandt, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. <\/p>\n<p>TikTok did not immediately respond \u200cto a request \u2060for comment. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2060cases are among thousands of similar lawsuits consolidated in California state court. The plaintiffs&#8217; claims against Meta Platforms, Google&#8217;s \u200bYouTube and Snap Inc&#8217;s Snapchat will continue. A trial is scheduled in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has agreed to settle three lawsuits brought by young people who accuse social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive and harming their mental health, a plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer said MondayThe terms of the settlements are confidential and subject to the finalisation of written settlement agreements with TikTok, according to Joseph VanZandt, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. TikTok did not immediately respond \u200cto a request \u2060for comment. The \u2060cases are among thousands of similar lawsuits consolidated in California state court. The plaintiffs&#8217; claims against Meta Platforms, Google&#8217;s \u200bYouTube and Snap Inc&#8217;s Snapchat will continue. A trial is scheduled [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026234","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=1026234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026260,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026234\/revisions\/1026260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}