Social Media Victims Law Center Files Three New Lawsuits on Behalf of Children Who Died of Suicide or Suffered Sex Abuse by Character.AI
The Social Media Victims Law Center, a legal advocacy organization supporting families harmed by predatory tech, and the law firm of McKool Smith, has filed three separate lawsuits today in federal courts in Colorado and New York alleging that Character.AI and its founders, with Google’s help, knowingly designed, deployed, and marketed predatory chatbot technology aimed at children.
Social Media Victims Law Center files wrongful death lawsuit against TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Inc. in the Blackout Challenge deaths of four U.K. children
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children and teenage victims harmed by social media addiction and social media fueled harms, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against TikTok Inc. and its parent company ByteDance Inc. on behalf of four families from the United Kingdom whose children died from self-strangulation while participating in the TikTok Blackout Challenge.
Social Media Victims Law Center World Mental Health Day Lawsuit Alleges Social Media Companies Design Their Products to Be Addictive and Harmful to Children on a Global Scale
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children and teenage victims harmed by social media addiction and social media fueled harms, has filed a lawsuit on World Mental Health Day on behalf of 11 families in the United States and Canada whose children, ages 12 to 19, suffered physical and mental harms that could be directly attributed to their use of social media products.
Social Media Victims Law Center: Buffalo Judge Denies Social Media Companies’ Motion to Dismiss Lawsuits Related to Their Role in Radicalizing Shooter at the Tops Friendly Markets Mass Shooting; Case to Proceed to Discovery
Erie County Supreme Court Judge Paula L. Feroleto issued a Decision and Order denying Meta Platforms, Inc., Snap, Inc.; Alphabet, Inc., Discord, Inc.; Reddit, Inc.; and Amazon.com, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit the social media companies are facing for their role in radicalizing the shooter to commit white supremacist murders at the Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, N.Y. on May 14, 2022. Ten people were killed, all of them Black, and three people were injured.
Social Media Victims Law Center and Belluck & Fox file lawsuit against Meta, ByteDance, Inc., TikTok and Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the one-year anniversary of Zackery Nazario’s death from a “subway surfing” accident
The Social Media Victims Law Center and Belluck & Fox, LLP are filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc., ByteDance, Inc., TikTok and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in the death of 15-year-old Zackery Nazario, who died while riding atop a subway car traveling across Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn, NY after being inspired by “Subway Surfing Challenge” videos he was exposed to on social media.
Social Media Victims Law Center, Law Office of John V. Elmore, Giffords Law Center file wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of victims of 2022 mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, N.Y.
The Social Media Victims Law Center, The Law Office of John V. Elmore, P.C., and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in response to Payton Gendron’s racially motivated attack at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 14, 2022. Ten people were killed, all of them Black, and three people were injured.
Social Media Victims Law Center Sues ByteDance and TikTok in the Death of 16-Year-Old Chase Nasca; Parents Travel to Washington D.C. to Hear Congressional Testimony of TikTok CEO
The Social Media Victims Law Center, a legal resource for parents of children and teenage victims harmed by social media addiction and online abuse, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against ByteDance, Inc. and TikTok, Inc. in the February 18, 2022 death of Chase Nasca, 16, from Suffolk County, New York.
Social Media Victims Law Center and CA Goldberg, PLLC file suit against Snap, Inc. for Facilitating the Sale of Deadly Fentanyl-laced Pills That Resulted in Eight Deaths
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children and teenage victims harmed by social media addiction and online abuse, together with C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, a New York law firm representing victims of catastrophic injuries caused by tech giants, have filed a lawsuit against Snap, Inc. on behalf of the families of nine teenagers and young adults, eight of whom died after taking drugs purchased from drug dealers who they connected with through Snapchat. In all eight cases, the children and young adults believed they were purchasing non-lethal medications, like Percocet or Xanax; but the pills were actually fentanyl pressed to look like prescription medications and in doses lethal enough to kill multiple people with a single dose.
Social Media Victims Law Center Launches “No Parental Consent to Social Media” Campaign
Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse, has launched its “No Parental Consent to Social Media” campaign which gives parents and guardians of minors a voice in letting Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok know that they do not give their permission or consent for their children to open or have specific social media accounts.
Social Media Victims Law Center Files Suit Against Social Media Giants for the Race-Driven Anguish Suffered by One Small-Town Family
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse, announced that it has filed suit on behalf of Damian Johnson, a single father living in Canton, Ill., and his three children against YouTube, LLC, Meta Platforms, Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram, Snap, Inc. and TikTok, Inc. alleging that their algorithms purposely pushed dangerous race- and gender-based content to his children.
Social Media Victims Law Center Files Wrongful Death Lawsuits Against TikTok for Two Children’s Deaths Resulting From Its “Blackout Challenge”
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse, announced that it has filed two wrongful death lawsuits in the deaths of 8-year-old Lalani Erika Walton of Temple, Texas, and 9-year-old Arriani Jaileen Arroyo of Milwaukee, Wisconsin who both died of self-strangulation while participating in TikTok’s “Blackout Challenge,” which encourages users to choke themselves with belts, purse strings or other similar items until passing out.
Social Media Victims Law Center Lawsuit Alleges That Instagram Knowingly Targets Tweens and Encourages 11-year-olds to Open Multiple Accounts
The Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of teenage victims harmed by social media addiction and online abuse, announced that it has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Meta, Inc., parent company of Instagram, on behalf of Alexis Spence and her parents Kathleen and Jeffrey Spence.
Social Media Victims Law Center Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. in Suicide of 17-Year-Old Christopher J. Dawley
Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of teenage victims suffering from depression, an eating disorder, hospitalization, sexual exploitation, self-harm or suicide as a result of social media addiction, today announced it has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. to hold each accountable for the suicide death of Christopher J. “CJ” Dawley, 17, of Salem, WI., on January 4, 2015.
Social Media Victims Law Center Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. for Causing the Suicide of 11-year-old Selena Rodriguez
Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of teenage victims suffering from depression, an eating disorder, hospitalization, sexual exploitation, self-harm or suicide as a result of social media cyberbullying, today announced it has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc., and Snap, Inc. to hold each accountable in the death of 11-year-old Selena Rodriguez of Enfield, Conn., on July 21, 2021 by suicide caused by the defective design, negligence and unreasonably dangerous features of their products.
Social Media Victims Law Center Established to Hold Social Media Companies Legally Accountable for the Damage Cyberbullying Causes to Children and Young Adults
Matthew P. Bergman, founder of Bergman Draper Oslund Udo, the Pacific Northwest’s premier mesothelioma law firm, today announced the launch of the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), www.socialmediavictims.org, as a legal resource for teenage victims suffering from depression, an eating disorder, hospitalization, sexual exploitation, self-harm or suicide as a result of social media cyberbullying.
