Tammy Rodriguez (Tammy Rodriguez) filed to the company Instagram and Snapchat after Suicide of its eleven-year-old daughter in July 2021, writes RIA Novosti with reference to the court database.
It is reported that the woman regularly tried to protect the daughter of Selena from excessive use of applications. The lawsuit is aimed at attracting companies to justice for the growing mental health crisis in children and adolescents due to the dependence on social networks.
The lawsuit says that the respondent’s products do not allow parental control, so the only way to restrict access to it was to confiscate devices with Internet access. This led to the fact that Selena ran away. Rodriguez told that she drove her daughter to a psychotherapist, and the specialist said that he had never seen a patient with such a strong dependence on social networks. The woman demanded from companies to correct “dangerous” algorithms, supply products with warnings for minors and their parents that it is addictive, and pay it compensation.
Earlier platform for working with PERFLUENCE bloggers, Zigmund.online online psychotherapy service and ResearchMe Analytical Agency conducted a study among Russians aged 18 to 55 years and called the number of users dependent on social networks. It showed that more than a third of the Internet users spend in social networks up to three hours a day.