SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 — TikTok settled a lawsuit with a teenager just weeks before the company was set to go to trial in a second landmark case over whether social media...

The case is part of litigation consolidating thousands of lawsuits alleging that several major social platforms used addictive designs that harmed young people’s mental health.

June 30 : TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a teenager who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, a spokesperson for the plaintiff's law firm said…