Snapchat Sued By Temecula Family And Others Who Lost Kids To Fentanyl – Patch

Skip to main contentMurrieta, CALake Elsinore-Wildomar, CAOceanside-Camp Pendleton, CAEscondido, CASan Clemente, CACarlsbad, CARancho Santa Margarita, CATrabuco Canyon, CASan Juan Capistrano, CAMission Viejo, CACaliforniaTop National NewsSee All CommunitiesTEMECULA, CA — Santa Monica-based Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, is being sued by families — including one in Temecula — who lost children to fake “medications” containing fentanyl. The deadly drug was peddled to their kids using the popular instant messaging app and the company did nothing to stop it, the suit alleges.Snap Inc. characterized “several” allegations contained in the lawsuit as “wholly inaccurate,” and said the company’s cutting-edge technology shuts down drug dealers’ accounts and redirects Snapchatters “to resources from experts about the dangers of fentanyl.” Snapchat’s disappearing messages “encourage, enable and facilitate” illegal drug sales to youth users on the social media platform, according to the complaint filed Oct. 13 in the Los Angeles Superior Court by the Seattle-based Social Media Victims Law Center and New York-based C.A. Goldberg, PLLC.Find out what’s happening in Temeculawith free, real-time updates from Patch.The parents and sisters of Alexandra Capelouto, 20, are among nine families represented in the suit. Capelouto was an Arizona State University student, home for the holidays with her family…
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