Levin Sedran & Berman partner Michael Weinkowitz has been appointed by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S.D.C, as Leadership of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee for the MDL In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation in the Northern District of California. This Multi-District Litigation (MDL) involves various defendants such as Meta Platforms, Inc., Instagram LLC, Snap, Inc., TikTok, Inc., ByteDance, Inc., YouTube LLC, Google LLC, and Alphabet Inc. Plaintiffs have alleged that the defendants’ social media platforms are defective because they are designed to maximize screen time, which can encourage addictive and destructive behavior in adolescents and can result in various emotional and physical harms, and other addiction-related injuries. For more information, visit our Social Media page.