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Meta, TikTok push for injunction against California social-media addiction law

( April 10, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms and TikTok filed replies in support of enjoining California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act, saying that the authority to restrict personalized speech by publishers is a remarkable, historically unprecedented state power. They argued that the law implicates the First Amendment because its personalized-feed restrictions are governmental regulations restricting the dissemination of protected speech. Also, the use of algorithms neither negates the companies’ own expressive contributions nor strips them of their First Amendment right to disseminate the protected speech that their personalized feeds present.See attached files. ...

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