It comes after seven similar lawsuits against Meta, which said that too much time spent on social networking sites led to suicide attempts, anorexia, and other health problems.

On Wednesday, a family sued Meta, saying that their daughter's "addictive" use of Instagram led to her eating problem, self-harm, and thoughts of suicide.

Alexis, who is now 19, had an Instagram account when she was only 11 years old, according to the lawsuit.

In other words, her parents said that Alexis had become "addicted to Meta's product" and that she was spending more and more time on social media, mostly looking at information that Meta had given her or suggested she look at. According to court documents, Alexis's sadness, anxiety, and anorexia were caused by toxic content on Instagram. She had to be hospitalized to get help.

It comes after recent similar lawsuits against Meta, which said that too much time spent on social networking sites led to suicide attempts, anorexia, and other health problems.

Andy Birchfield, a lawyer for Beasley Allen, says that teens could have been protected, but in the interest of making money for corporations, it was decided to try to get them hooked on drugs instead.

In another complaint, it was said that a woman's "addictive" use of Instagram caused her to have trouble eating. In a separate case, someone else said they had suicidal thoughts and felt bad about their bodies.

On Wednesday, a Meta representative said that the company's platforms now let parents keep an eye on what their kids do online. The platforms also had notifications that reminded people to take a break from their apps once in a while.

The head of the Social Media Victims Law Center, Matthew P. Bergman, said, "If you look at the huge study that Meta did, they knew exactly what they were doing to kids and they kept doing it." I'd like to be able to say that Alexis's situation is different. It's not at all true. Her being alive is the only odd thing."

Leaked internal Meta papers showed that the company knew in September of last year about the risks to the mental and physical health of its teenage customers.

Employees of the company have been studying how their product affects the mental health of their younger customers since at least 2019. They have found over and over that it is bad for many people, especially teenage girls.