Snap Settles in Social Media Addiction Case: California Brief

Snap Makes Social Media Addiction Deal

Snapchat is a subsidiary of Snap, Inc.

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Snap has settled the claims of a plaintiff whose social media addiction case will soon be the first to reach a jury in LA state court, Maia Spoto reports.

Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm, representing the 19-year-old woman known as K.G.M., and Faye Paul Teller of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, representing the platform Snap, told a California state judge about the deal at a status conference Tuesday but didn’t say what it included.

The plaintiff’s is the first of thousands of cases filed by young users against social media …