Montana attorney general Knudsen sues Instagram – KTVH

HELENA — Montana’s attorney general, currently involved in a legal battle over the app TikTok, has now filed suit against another social media platform.On Friday, Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a complaint in federal district court, accusing Instagram of exposing minors to inappropriate content and improperly collecting their data. He asked for an injunction to stop the platform and its operators from making what he described as “deceptive and unfair statements” about its content and policies.The suit names Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, as a defendant, along with a number of its subsidiaries.“Meta must be held accountable for its deceptive practices and the harm it has caused,” Knudsen said in a statement. “Instagram’s intentional addictive design and its failure to address the rampant presence of harmful content on its platform, including explicit drug promotion and sexual exploitation, pose serious risks to the mental health and well-being of young Montanans.”Knudsen’s complaint says Instagram claims on the Apple, Google and Microsoft app stores to be appropriate for teens because it includes only infrequent or mild profanity, sexual content and alcohol, tobacco and drug references. However, it says the state and others have conducted investigations using test accounts that professed
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