A federal judge in California said that Facebook's parent corporation Meta must respond to lawsuits filed by US states alleging that it fostered youthful addiction on social media. Meta attempted to have the claims made by the states in two different lawsuits filed last year—one involving more than 30 states and the other involving simply Florida—thrown out, but US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, based in Oakland, denied her request.

The firm claimed that some of the claims were barred by federal law and that the states had neglected to bring up its false assertions. The judge allowed the case to go mainly unaltered but imposed some restrictions on the claims that the states—more than thirty in total—may make. The social media company's move to have some individual plaintiffs' allegations of social media addiction dismissed was also denied by the judge.

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The states are requesting unspecified monetary penalties as well as injunctions against Meta for what they claim to be unlawful business activities. Several individuals have filed hundreds of cases against Meta, ByteDance's TikTok, and Alphabet's YouTube, alleging that the corporations created addictive algorithms that caused teenage anxiety, depression, and body image problems while neglecting to alert the public to the risks involved.

Meanwhile, Instagram has introduced new Profile Cards for users to make it easy to share their profiles with different users. The creators will be able to create a digital two-sided card. The first side of the card includes the photo, music, bio and other personal details (which can be customised) while the second side will have QR scanning which the other user will head to the creator’s account.