Snap settles lawsuit accusing platform of fueling teen depression and eating disorders

TechCrunch - Nov 2, 2026

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

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