{"id":2218883,"date":"2024-04-11T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-tribal-nations-join-in-suit-against-social-media-apps-over-youth-suicide\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:10:49","slug":"two-tribal-nations-join-in-suit-against-social-media-apps-over-youth-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-tribal-nations-join-in-suit-against-social-media-apps-over-youth-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Two indigenous tribes unite to sue social media platforms for their role in youth suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-tribal-nations-join-in-suit-against-social-media-apps-over-youth-suicide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2218883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200dwebpage contains a button to reveal more content, specifically mentioning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> \u200dparent companies such as \u200cMeta. It seems to\u200c offer information about social media\u2062 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-owners-of-solarwinds-have-links-to-obama-the-clintons-china-hong-kong-and-the-us-election-process\/\" title=\"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Owners of SolarWinds Have Links to Obama, the Clintons, China, Hong Kong and the US Election Process\">related companies<\/a>. \u2063The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-vote-on-debt-ceiling-spending-cut-bill\/\" title=\"House to Vote on Debt Ceiling, Spending Cut Bill\">webpage features<\/a> \u2063a &#8220;Read \u200dmore&#8230;&#8221; button that hints at additional content discussing social media parent companies like Meta. It appears to provide insights \u2062into\u2062 social media and \u200cassociated corporations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Social media<\/a> parent companies <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/meta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Meta<\/a>, Alphabet, Snap Inc., and ByteDance are facing a lawsuit from <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/native-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>two tribal nations<\/a> for their alleged contribution to Native youth suicides.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit Lake Tribe in North Dakota and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin are blaming the use of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube for altering Native youth\u2019s propensity to attempt suicide, which is 3.5 times higher than the U.S. national average, per the complaint. The lawsuit is seeking compensatory damages due to what it claims is a \u201cskewed and often distorted environment\u201d\u00a0within the digital platforms that is negatively affecting youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough. Endless scrolling is rewiring our teenagers\u2019 brains,\u201d Menominee Chairwoman Gena Kakkak said in a statement. \u201cWe are demanding these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-deals-major-blow-to-big-tech-and-sets-up-scotus-to-restore-free-speech\/\" title=\"Federal Court Deals Major Blow To Big Tech And Sets Up SCOTUS To Restore Free Speech\">social media corporations<\/a> take responsibility for intentionally creating dangerous features that ramp up the compulsive use of social media by the youth on our Reservation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lawsuit, filed with the firm Robins Kaplan, comes as over 140 school districts and 42 states have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-watchdog-files-ethics-complaint-against-florida-democrat-congressman-over-alleged-abuse-of-official-resources\/\" title=\"Government watchdog files ethics complaint against Florida Democrat congressman for alleged misuse of official resources.\">filed similar complaints<\/a> against Meta in particular for being an addictive nuisance. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled last year that the platforms are not protected by lawsuits, such as these via Section 230, the law that eliminates civil and state liability for digital hosts when it comes to third-party posts.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet has claimed to be in collaboration with mental health experts for best practices. Snap Inc. has also offered alternate feeds for its young users. Meta\u00a0has installed additional censoring measures to stop teenage users from receiving and sending\u00a0nude images on\u00a0Instagram\u2019s\u00a0policy surrounding nudity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, Alphabet, Snap Inc., and ByteDance are being sued by two tribal nations for their suspected involvement in Native youth suicides. The Spirit Lake Tribe and the Menominee Indian Tribe accuse platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube of negatively impacting Native youths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2218884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24005836447288-1024x1024.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24005836447288-1024x1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}