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Tammy Rodriguez has filed a lawsuit against the platforms, which she blames for her ‘extremely addicted’ child’s death 23 January 2022 - 17:21 By Robert Burnson and Malathi Nayak Meta Platforms and Snap are to blame for the suicide of an 11-year-old who suffered from depression and sleep deprivation after becoming addicted to Instagram and Snapchat, says the girl’s mother.In a lawsuit, she says Selena Rodriguez struggled for two years with an “extreme addiction” to Meta’s photo-sharing platform and Snap’s messaging app, before taking her life last year. Instagram and Snapchat have deliberately designed algorithms that keep teens hooked onto their platforms and “promote problematic and excessive use that they know is indicative of addictive and self-destructive use”, according to the San Francisco federal court case...

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New York Daily News | Jan 22, 2022 at 3:50 PM A Connecticut mother has filed a lawsuit against two social media giants, accusing them of relying on tactics that fueled her 11-year-old daughter’s addiction to Instagram and Snapchat, which ultimately resulted in her suicide. Selena Rodriguez died by suicide on July 21, 2021. In the two years leading up to her death, her mother, Tammy, did everything she could to quell her child’s intense dependence on social media. She brought her to a therapist and on one occasion, she went as far as confiscating all of Selena’s electronic devices, but she only ran away so she could continue to use the popular platforms. (File) A Connecticut mother has filed a lawsuit against two social media giants, accusing them of tactics that helped to fuel her 11-year-old daughter’s addiction to Instagram and Snapchat, which ultimately resulted in her suicide. (Shutterstock) On Thursday, the mourning mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and Snap Inc., which operates Snapchat, claiming they are responsible for Selena’s suicide. Despite being too young to be on either platform per their terms of service — both…

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the state's so-called "revenge porn" law that makes it a criminal act to distribute intimate images without consent.In a 5-0 ruling issued Tuesday, the court found that the General Assembly did not run afoul of the free speech guarantees of either the Indiana Constitution or the U.S. Constitution when it enacted the law in 2019.The law criminalized the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images, online or in-person, making doing so a class A misdemeanor punishable by a $5,000 fine and/or a year in jail.The ruling involved a case where a Trine University student allegedly sent an explicit video to his ex-girlfriend through Snapchat. Copyright © 2022 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

A Redondo Beach man whose car was allegedly vandalized with racist graffiti by two Torrance police officers filed a federal lawsuit against the South Bay city this week, revealing new details about the incident, which sparked an investigation that revealed more than a dozen Torrance cops had been exchanging racist and homophobic text messages for years. Kiley Swaine, 28, accused the officers of unlawful search and seizure, unlawful taking of his property and violating his constitutional rights in a 46-page complaint filed Wednesday. Ex-Torrance police officers Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic were charged last year with spray-painting a swastika inside of Swaine’s 2004 Hyundai Elantra after they arrested him in January 2020.

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Lancaster Daily Voice serves East Hempfield Twp, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lancaster, Manheim Twp, Manor Twp, Rapho Twp, Salisbury Twp & Warwick Twp Return to your home site Thursday, jan 20 32° Notification Push Notifications Notification Sound Notification permissions are disabled. Enable them in your device's settings. © 2022 Cantata Media 01/20/2022 1:29 p.m. Hempfield High School football coach, Thomas James Walker. Photo Credit: Twitter (Tommy Walker; @coach_walker9) A central Pennsylvania high school football coach has been charged with corrupting a minor after drunk texting a 16-year-girl, according to a release by police.Hempfield High School football coach, Thomas "Tommy" James Walker, 25, of Marietta sent messages about being "drunk and horny" to the girl on the social media platform SnapChat on Oct. 7 around 10:30 p.m., according to the police. The West Hempfield Township police department began investigating the matter after receiving a complaint from the girl and her parent "that a teacher from Hempfield sent her inappropriate messages," as stated in the release.Walker continued to message for a while and even asked about her appearance-- requesting her to send pictures-- before the victim ended the conversation, according to the release.Walker admitted to a Lancaster County Children and Youth Agency caseworker that…

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., on Tuesday announced new rules to limit the number of friends suggestions teens see when on the app, a move the company says is aimed at blocking drug dealers from adding minors as friends.The company is changing the “Quick Add” feature, which recommends new friends on the platform, to exclude teens from 13 to 17 unless they have “a certain number of friends in common with that person,” according to Snap’s announcement post.Snap also announced partnerships with anti-drug organizations to educate and provide resources for teens using its app. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and the Truth Initiative will provide content for the app, alongside anti-drug nonprofit Song for Charlie, which already works with Snapchat.Snap’s global head of platform safety Jacqueline Beauchere said in response to the announcement, “Snapchat isn’t ideal for finding new people. It was designed for communicating with people whom you already know, your real-life friends.”Snap announced in October that it formed a partnership with S-3, a public health data firm, to look for drug dealers who might use Snapchat to sell drugs.Some critics have expressed skepticism that these measures will work.Samuel Chapman, whose son died after overdosing on pills he bought through Snapchat, said that the changes “are easy for…

Snapchat, the social media platform particularly popular with teens, has claimed that it is working to make it tougher for drug dealers to connect with children on its platform. The parent of one teen who overdosed on fentanyl-laced pills he bought from a dealer on Snapchat said in response: “What I find with Snap Inc. is that they publicize one Band-Aid after another, but at the end of the day, you can still go online and get drugs in seconds.” NBC News reports that Snapchat, the disappearing-message app popular among teenagers, has promised that it is taking steps to crack down on drug dealing on the app. Snap Inc. claims that the company is working hard to make it even more difficult for users to find the accounts of minors below the age of 17.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (Photo credit should read ERIC BARADAT/AFP/Getty Images) An investigation by NBC News published in October found that Snapchat was linked to the sale of drugs and particularly to fentanyl-laced pills killing teenagers and young adults in more than a dozen states. Snap claimed that it has automated systems in place to detect illegal drugs and has hired more employees to handle requests…