Enfield mother sues owners of Instagram, Snapchat over suicide of 11-year-old daughter …

The mother of an 11-year-old Enfield girl who committed suicide is suing the owners of Instagram and Snapchat, saying her daughter struggled for more than two years with an extreme addiction to the social media sites.The lawsuit filed by Tammy Rodriguez of Enfield in U.S. Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, names Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Instagram, and Snap Inc. owner of Shapchat. One of her lawyers, Matthew Bergman, represents the Social Media Victims Law Center in Seattle. “This isn’t a question of opinion. Internal documents and testimony before Congress by a former employee reveal that Meta Platforms was fully aware of the flaws and addictive properties of its social media platforms and failed to adequately design their products to protect minor users from harm,” Bergman said in a statement. “Similarly, no safeguards are in place on Snapchat.“Selena’s suicide is a direct result of the inaction and deliberate addictive design of these social media platforms to prey on vulnerable children. Meta Platforms and Snap must be held accountable for the role their products played in the loss of human life to prevent future suicides and self-harm to their other teen users.”The lawsuit says Selena…
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