A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s ‌Google, ByteDance’s TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in ​the litigation.

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    1 day ago

    Its his son, to get the whole thing back he would have to press charges. The amount would be a massive felony here. He’s not going to flush his kids life to get the money back. And he would have to get the money back from the “criminal”, his tween son. No win here

    Now AMEX could press charges if roblox and the father not played ball. But that would go no where as he has the money to repay (and he did) so its hard to arrest someone if there are no damages.

    So this route he gets a little back, his kids not in a juvenile facility and has a record. Robox keeps the lion share and AMEX is whole. My take is my buddy has money, if they went the other route he would be in the press/lawyered as this was during the roblox media frenzy. So roblox payed him to go away, with his money.