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May 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear \u2060a \u2060bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a lawsuit \u2060brought by Vermont’s attorney general accusing the company of designing its Instagram social media app to be addictive to \u200byoung users, as big technology companies face mounting legal risks over child and teen safety.<\/p>\n

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The justices turned away Meta’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that let the \u200clawsuit proceed, rejecting the company’s argument that \u200ccourts in Vermont lack jurisdiction over the dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The case is part of a wave of litigation by individuals, municipalities, states and school districts nationwide amid a global \u2060backlash over the \u2060effects of social media on young users, with lawsuits focusing on the way companies designed and \u200boperated their platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vermont argued that Instagram was designed to “exploit teenagers’ developing brains” to foster addiction and sell more advertising space, including ads that target Vermont markets and teens, and that Meta also intentionally misled consumers about the safety of its product.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta said the state did not allege that it designed the app or its features in Vermont, or that \u200bany of the alleged misrepresentations about Instagram’s safety or addictiveness were made in Vermont. Testifying in February at a youth social media addiction \u2060trial \u2060in California, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg \u2060denied that Instagram targets kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vermont’s \u200bDemocratic Attorney General Charity Clark sued Meta in 2023 in state court under the state’s consumer protection law, claiming that Instagram has even \u200bstudied teens’ neurological, cognitive and psychological vulnerabilities \u2060to cause them to use the app compulsively and excessively, harming their mental health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuit was part of a coordinated effort involving 42 state attorneys general filing enforcement actions in both state and federal courts around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta sought to have the Vermont case dismissed. Meta has argued that allowing the case to proceed in Vermont is unfair, violating its right to due process under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, because it could subject the company to such legal challenges in all \u206050 states.<\/p>\n

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The Vermont Supreme Court rejected this concern in 2025, noting that because the state sued Meta for allegedly pushing \u2060a harmful design and misleading users about it – harnessing personal information and generating revenue as a result – any due process concerns are “clearly extinguished.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“A company that reaches out and purposefully avails itself of a forum state’s market for its own economic gain can expect to be haled into court in that jurisdiction to account for its conduct related to those business activities,” the Vermont Supreme Court said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta’s appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court follows recent, unfavorable outcomes for the company in state courts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In April, the top court in Massachusetts ruled that Meta must face a similar youth addiction lawsuit by that state’s attorney general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In March, a jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties in a lawsuit by New Mexico’s attorney general, accusing the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook and Instagram and of enabling \u2060child sexual exploitation on those platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also in March, a separate jury in Los Angeles found Meta and Alphabet’s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, awarding a combined $6 million to a 20-year-old woman who said she became addicted to social media as a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In May, Meta settled a lawsuit brought by a school district in Kentucky, one of thousands seeking to make \u200bsocial media companies cover the costs that schools say they have incurred to combat a mental health crisis allegedly fueled \u200bby platforms.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Andrew Chung ni New York; Editing by Will Dunham)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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