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Despite Meta’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit by the commonwealth of Massachusetts, claiming some of its features were designed to purposefully addict children to its platforms, the lawsuit will go forward, a judge ruled in a decision made public Friday.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had argued that the lawsuit violated Section 230, which protects social media platforms from user content on its sites, and that it violated the First Amendment.
But Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Peter Krupp said that Section 230’s protections in the Communications Decency Act doesn’t apply to allegedly false statements that Meta made about its efforts to protect children on its sites and to keep children younger than 13 off Facebook and Instagram.
It added that the lawsuit was “principally seeking to…
