{"id":25162,"date":"2026-11-02T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=25162"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:50:28","slug":"snap-reaches-settlement-in-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-ahead-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=25162","title":{"rendered":"Snap reaches settlement in social media addiction lawsuit ahead of trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><br \/>\n      <span class=\"content__observer-marker content__observer-marker--fixed lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has reached a settlement in a social media addiction lawsuit, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs had alleged in the suit that Snapchat was designed to be addictive. The announcement comes just days after <span class=\"link\">Meta also agreed to settle<\/span>\u00a0the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the settlement were undisclosed, according to the spokesperson for Morgan &amp; Morgan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TikTok and Alphabet, owner of YouTube, also settled with the plaintiffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snap did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 This is a developing story and will be updated<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--editors\">\n      Edited by<\/p>\n<p>                                  Alain  Sherter\n                      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Snap #reaches #settlement #social #media #addiction #lawsuit #ahead #trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has reached a settlement in a social media addiction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[983,585,3760,982,6146,1320,5034,981,977],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-addiction","tag-ahead","tag-lawsuit","tag-media","tag-reaches","tag-settlement","tag-snap","tag-social","tag-trial"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707.jpg",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-2293856707-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=2\" rel=\"category\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}