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Social media companies fail to get judgment against school district in US addiction case

( February 9, 2026, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap must face a Kentucky school system's negligence and public nuisance claims in the US litigation over social media’s allegedly negative impact on minors, a California federal judge ruled. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied a motion for summary judgment, saying that the plaintiff provides deposition, documentary, and expert opinion evidence that each company’s platforms contained “actionable defects” which engender compulsive use sufficiently independent from content to avoid Section 230 immunity.See attached file. ...

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