{"id":49388,"date":"2026-11-06T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/google-meta-tiktok-sue-over-social-media-law\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:35:22","slug":"google-meta-tiktok-sue-over-social-media-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/google-meta-tiktok-sue-over-social-media-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Meta, TikTok sue over social media law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">social media<\/a> companies want to block a California law designed to reduce youth social media addiction from going into law. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/meta\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">Meta<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">TikTok<\/a> each filed lawsuits against California&#8217;s attorney general, Rob Bonta. <\/p>\n<p>Beginning on Jan. 1, 2027, the bill (AB 1709) would prohibit platforms including Google, Meta, and TikTok from providing &#8220;an addictive feature&#8221; to users under 16. The law describes such features as &#8220;psychologically exploitative&#8221; and intended to maximize engagement in a way that leads to compulsive use. This includes infinite scroll, autoplay, and an &#8220;addictive&#8221; feed.<\/p>\n<p>The law also requires platforms to &#8220;implement reasonable measures&#8221; so that young users aren&#8217;t offered such features.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/google-meta-tiktok-sue-california-over-social-media-law\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the biggest social media companies want to block a California law designed to reduce youth social media addiction from going into law. On Wednesday, Google, Meta, and TikTok each filed lawsuits against California&#8217;s attorney general, Rob Bonta. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2027, the bill (AB 1709) would prohibit platforms including Google, Meta, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-49388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}