A new lawsuit says four teenagers died by suicide after years of harm from social media. Its sharpest claim is not that the platforms failed, but when. The children died long after the companies told Congress they had fixed the danger.
The Social Media Victims Law Center filed the wrongful-death suit on Thursday in Delaware’s Superior Court, the Associated Press reported. It represents four families, from Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota and Tennessee, and names Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube. The four teenagers died over fourteen months, from July 2024 to September 2025.
“These platforms continue to kill kids, despite the platitudes of their executives,” said Matthew Bergman, the group’s founding attorney. He called it “particularly salient” that the children died long after earlier suits had already flagged the same harms.
Four families, one pattern
The complaint describes once-thriving children who grew anxious and withdrawn as their use of the apps deepened. They were Livi Castro, 13, Riv Kelleher, 14, Nathaniel Chambers, 17, and Dawson Holden, 18. It alleges the platforms profiled the teenagers in real time, then pushed beauty filters, diet advertisements and social-comparison content known to worsen depression and self-harm.
