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A U.S. federal appellate court on Monday paved the way for thousands of lawsuits to proceed against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok, and Snap Inc's Snapchat over allegations that the companies deliberately engineered their social media platforms to be addictive to young users.

Meta, TikTok, and Google face multi-billion dollar day of reckoning

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