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Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children
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Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

  • By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer

For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children's mental health through the way they design their platforms, deliberately addicting kids and failing to protect them from sexual predators and dangerous content. Now, these tech giants are getting a chance to make their case in courtrooms around the country, including before a jury for the first time. Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and state trials that seek to hold them responsible for harming children's mental health

San Francisco overdose deaths on rise
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San Francisco overdose deaths on rise

  • By Alise Maripuu Bay City News
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health is aiming to treat the underlying cause of drug addiction to mitigate the city’s overdose deaths…