Mont. Privacy Action vs. Meta Is Transferred to Social Media MDL in Oakland

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred State of Montana v. Meta Platforms, Inc. to In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (docket 3047) under U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California in Oakland, said conditional transfer order (CTO-27) Thursday. The Dec. 1 privacy action seeks to hold social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube accountable for rising rates of mental illness among U.S. school kids and involves questions of fact common to actions previously transferred to the court, said CTO-27. Since Oct. 6, 2022, 152 actions have been transferred to the Oakland court, all under Rogers, it said.