Snap
Texas law enforcers estimate that 85% of grooming cases they handle involve Snapchat, enabled by the QuickAdd feature.
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Internal discussion of CEO Evan Spiegel's instruction that "our mission is to increase engagement (time spent) in the app."
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Safety team admits that 96.7% of existing reports never reach a review.
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Staff admit that "Family Center" adoption is extremely low because they deliberately limited discoverability to avoid harming teen engagement.
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Internal discussion suggests design changes to make users "care about (if not become addictive to)" their "user score."
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Snap staffer notes Discover already uses endless-scroll design and says "we wish it was more (addictive) compelling," striking-through the word "addictive."
Docket Date: 3/25/26
Snap
Staff celebrates "some mass psychosis where 17 million people must keep the streaks going."
Docket Date: 2/23/26
Snap
Executive discusses a Slack exchange about students' "under-the-desk" phone use during class.
Docket Date: 2/20/26
Meta
“The best external research indicates that Facebook’s impact on people’s well-being is negative."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
Meta
“An addicted user is not necessarily just someone who spends several hours a day on Facebook, but rather someone who had a high number of sessions compared to their time spent."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
YouTube
"Goal is not viewership, it's viewer addiction."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
YouTube
"More than 70% of schools in the US block YouTube ... Ideal Solution: New Domain."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
YouTube
"YouTube no longer SMP (social media platform) if we remove social features."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
Meta
"Mark has decided that the top priority for the company [...] is teens."
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
"These concerns are loudest on short form content (more popular with teens) due to its lack of depth and infinite feed experience."
Docket Date: 2/20/26
Meta
"Engaging the vast majority of teens in a school [...] is crucial."
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“Zuck has been talking about (going after <13y/o users) for a while”
Docket Date: 11/14/25
Meta
“Instagram sells itself” to 6th graders ages 11-12
Docket Date: 11/14/25
Meta
“No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day. But that’s exactly what our product teams are trying to do.” – Max Eulenstein, VP of Product
Docket Date: 11/14/25
Meta
“Experiencing a reward (or reinforcement) can increase learning and motivation. This contributes to repeated, potentially habitual behaviors.”
Docket Date: 11/14/25
Meta
Internal Emails: Facebook's 'Teen Problem' & Targeting Schools
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
"School Blasts": Mass Notifications Sent During the School Day
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“Tweens on Facebook” & Internal Data that Facebook Use is Correlated with Lower Wellbeing
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“One of the key goals [...] is to get teens onto Facebook and stay there.”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“The size of the circles corresponds to the ‘reach’ of these issues.”
Docket Date: 11/14/25
Meta
Focusing on Each Youth Life Stage: Kid (6-10) to Teen (13+)
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Teen Conflicts on Instagram & No Violation of Standards
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Internal Reports of Racial Discrimination for Young Users
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Vision for Teen Audience Acquisition
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Employee Deposition on National PTA Partnership
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Experts
Meta Expert Report: Companies Did Not Provide Effective Warnings to Teens & Parents
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Experts
Meta Expert Report: Platforms Not Designed to Be Safe / Parental Controls are Ineffective
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“We need to optimize for [...] sneaking a look at your phone under your desk in the middle of chemistry :)”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Mapping Teen Locations
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
“The lifetime value of a 13 Y/O teen is roughly $270 per teen.”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Experts
Meta Long Term Retention: “The young ones are the best ones”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Internal Study: “Teens can’t switch off from Instagram even if they want to”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Internal Chat Messages: “Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Internal Verdict: Autoplay Disrupts Sleep Patterns
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Internal Email: Screentime Conversations with Educators
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Meta
Meta scientists were “both cognizant of and conceptually grounded in the current scientific literature.”
Docket Date: 11/14/25
YouTube
Internal Slidedeck: “YouTube isn’t safe”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Internal Slidedeck: “The YouTube experience in K-12 schools is broken”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Habitual Heavy Use, Late Night Use, Unintentional Use
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
“Business Case for Kids & Families”: Keeping Kids & Teens for Life
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
“How are we measuring wellbeing? Current answer–we’re not.”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Teen Focus Across Core Experiences
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
“Is this worth our time to fix?”: On Student Circumvention of Managed Restricted Mode
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
The Rabbit-Hole Phenomenon & Statistics on How YouTube Shapes 13-17 Year Olds
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
“We don’t know if our break and bedtime reminders ‘work.’ What is YouTube’s responsibility in this area?”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
YouTube Wellbeing Vision: Double Rainbow | A Vision of Digital Wellbeing at YouTube
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Deposition of Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
YouTube
Internal Slides: “Researchers feel that YouTube is built with the intention of being addictive”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Snap
Internal ‘Snap Habits’ Slides: “64% of Snapchatters ages 13-21 use Snapchat during school”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Snap
Internal Email: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel requests full text of an article on middle school kids being the exclusive user of Snapchat
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Snap
Internal Slides: "Social Media - Wellness Perception Research"
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Snap
Deposition of Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
TikTok
Employee Messages: "PTA/FOSI working group"
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
TikTok
On Younger Users: “Compulsive usage on TikTok is rampant”
Docket Date: 01/20/2026
Snap
Internal Email: "Snapstreaks" For Users Under 17
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
Meta
Internal Studies: Identify Autoplay And Infinite Scroll As Addictive Designs
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
Meta
Internal Studies: Employees Target Teenagers Because They're Easier To Addict
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
YouTube
Internal Deck: Google Was Aware That Children Were Viewing Sexual Content And Entering Therapy As A Result
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
Meta
Zuckerberg Explicitly Communicated A Motivation To Not Notify Parents Of Children’s Activities On Facebook
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
Meta
Internal Documents: Instagram's Primary Goal Is To Maximize Overall Use Time, Contradicting Zuckerberg's Statements To Congress
Docket Date: 11/14/2025
Meta
Meta Embarked On Efforts To Identify Students’ Specific School Affiliations—Even If They Already Opted-Out Of Sharing
Docket Date: 11/21/25
TikTok
TikTok’s Trust & Safety Team Analyzed And Wrote A Memo About “The Ugly Side Of Beauty Filters,” Documenting Harms Such As “Snapchat Dysmorphia"
Docket Date: 11/21/25
TikTok
Diagram Shows The Stark Difference Between Well Being Systems On Douyin (Chinese TikTok) and TikTok
Docket Date: 11/21/25
Snap
Snap Executives Focused On The Importance Of Acquiring 13 Years Olds To Their Platform
Docket Date: 11/21/25
Snap
Snap’s Map Featured Geolocated Students And Sold Data To Advertisers
Docket Date: 11/21/25
YouTube
YouTube Used Notifications To Keep Users Coming Back
Docket Date: 11/21/25
