TikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone
TikTok has confidentially settled a social media addiction lawsuit with a Florida teenager ahead of a July 27 trial in Los Angeles, following YouTube's settlement the previous week. Meta and Snap remain as the only defendants facing the jury. The 15-year-old plaintiff, who has been using social media since age eight, was diagnosed with anxiety and depression linked to platform use. This is TikTok's second pre-trial settlement in bellwether addiction cases. The broader litigation involves over 10,000 individual cases and nearly 800 school-district claims. Meta, which has consistently refused to settle, heads into its second consecutive trial, with the outcome potentially setting the tone for thousands of pending cases.