It was just on September 5 that LouisianaVoice published a story about the Livingston Parish School Board filing a lawsuit against social media giants Meta, Instagram and TikTok, as well as cable television providers Charter Communications and Cox Communications for poisoning children’s minds and otherwise inflicting permanent damage to their psyche, their grades, and…well, their futures by making the social media platforms addictive.
If you will recall, LouisianaVoice made the not-to-difficult prediction that this would be the next big class-action litigation to rival the tobacco and opioids legal battles and to a lesser extent, the BP litigation. The prognostication was made then that other states and other school districts would become co-plaintiffs in the effort to take down the evil predators.
Well, today, the STORY broke that 41 states have filed suit against Meta, claiming the tech giant has built “addictive features into Instagram and Facebook. For the time being, at least, TikTok has not be named a defendant but just wait, it likely will be added.
Anyway, it’s playing out pretty much as predicted and Louisiana, with our litigious attorney general soon-to-be governor is, of course, one of the 41 states listed as a plaintiff.
The one thing that is difficult – no, impossible – to comprehend is why there is so much redaction on the copy of the LAWSUIT that The Washington Post linked to in its article and to which we’ve attempting to link. Hope you can open it.
There should be no redactions in any public document like a lawsuit. Copies of lawsuits are supposed to be fully accessible to anyone who wants to go to the trouble of pulling them up and reading them.
Something smells here.
But it does cite a study by the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION entitled Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence, published last May which supported the claims of the lawsuit.
Here are the states that have signed on thus far:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, George, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The states of Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Hawai’i, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey. New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia each listed its respective attorney as representing his or her state.
Just can’t figure out how Jeff Landry, who adores seeing his name in the media, managed to let that opportunity slip by.
Be that as it may, this is playing out just as we predicted less than two months ago. Look for a pretty big payout when the dust has settled.
Louisiana Voice 
AG Weiser of Colorado was on PBS. The whistle blower-female Haugen was key in providing inside info. This is just the beginning. Tik Tok on the to do list. Landry somehow weasels through Question-Now that Meadows has flipped it seems all but certain that Trump and family will be convicted of some or all charges. How do we break the news to the base? Can the deplorables be so deaf dumb blind and inculcated that if Trump winds up behind bars he could still be elected? I’d say the Ruskies or Chinese have put something in the water.🇺🇸🇺🇸.