Parents of boy, 17, who killed himself in 2015 file wrongful death lawsuit against Meta and Snap

The grieving parents of a 17-year-old boy who killed himself while battling a social media addiction have filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat  that blames the firms for driving their son to his death.Chris and Donna Dawley, of Salem, Wisconsin, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, and Snapchat parent company, Snap, over their son, Christopher ‘CJ’ Dawley, who shot himself in the head in 2015. The lawsuit was filed last week with the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal organization that represents parents of teens suffering from depression, sexual exploitation and self harm as a result of social media addiction. ‘For seven years, we were trying to figure out what happened,’ Donna told CNN Business about her son’s death, adding that she wanted to hold the social media companies accountable for how their products affect children. ‘How dare you put a product out there knowing that it was going to be addictive Who would ever do that?’ Chris (right) and Donna Dawley, of Salem, Wisconsin, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat over their son’s 2015 suicide The Dawley’s said Christopher ‘CJ’ Dawley, 17, (pictured) became dangerously addicted to the social media…
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