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As Tong takes leadership of attorneys general, states confront tech on AI, platform addiction

By Mike Swift ( December 11, 2025, 23:34 GMT | Comment) -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who this week began his one-year term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General, sees approaching trials in lawsuits by state attorneys general against Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snap and YouTube as the successor to earlier fights by the states over tobacco and opioids, arguing all three involve addiction. “This is the defining fight of our time,” Tong said of the approaching litigation over social media addiction, as he took the reins of the association this week. Under Tong, the states are also drawing a line in the sand about "sycophantic and delusional" AI chatbots.Connecticut Attorney General William Tong draws a direct line from the US states’ multi-billion-dollar tobacco and opioid settlements to the states’ current addictive-design and privacy litigation against Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snap and YouTube....

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