Snap Reaches Settlement in High-Profile Lawsuit Over Teen Mental Health and Social Media Impact

11/03/2026

The trial was set to be the first for Snap in the sweeping litigation over social media's impact on teens, after the company settled the other cases that had been scheduled for trial. The...

11/03/2026

Snap has settled what would have been another landmark trial over the alleged harms of social media, lawyers for the plaintiffs said Monday, just days after Meta reached its own settlement and two...

11/02/2026

Snapchat parent Snap Inc has reached a settlement during a trial over claims brought by ‌two teenagers who say the company designed the platform to be addictive, causing their depression, anxiety...

11/02/2026

Snap has settled with two teenagers who accuse Snapchat and other social media apps of addictive design. Their trial in Los Angeles was days away. The terms are confidential.Lawyers for the...

11/02/2026

Snapchat’s parent company Snap, Inc. has settled with two teens who alleged the app made them depressed and gave them eating disorders, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said Monday.With the terms of the...

11/02/2026

Snap Inc., the parent company of social media app Snapchat, has settled claims alleging the platform was intentionally designed to be addictive for young users, ending the bellwether trial two...

11/02/2026

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel was due to testify in the upcoming trial.

11/02/2026

Snap Inc. is finalizing a settlement in a lawsuit filed by two teenagers who say years of compulsive scrolling and posting on the company’s photo-sharing app contributed to their mental health...

11/02/2026

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as...