Are Social Media Companies Liable for the Content on Their Apps?

Social media companies are potentially liable for their bad acts in creating and perpetuating social media addiction because they are knowing participants, right? We’ve got information that shows that they realize that the content that they are feeding or the information that they are feeding on their apps is dangerous and harmful to minors, and yet they’re misleading parents, they’re misleading society about the ill effects of it. We kind of look at this a little bit as we’ve seen the opioid epidemic is that the social media epidemic is being furthered and perpetuated by social media companies and they’re not taking any steps or any real helpful steps to mitigate the damages. Companies have admitted and have documentation that they create algorithms that are targeting children and that are uniquely tailored to push videos toward children that will keep them on the apps longer. And it can lead children, especially down a very damaging rabbit hole of pushing content and videos that are really dangerous to them. And the companies are doing it on purpose, and that, simply enough, is why eventually they’re going to be found liable for this behavior.