<body><p>STORY: Tennessee state claims Instagram's design is to blame for a youth mental-health crisis.</p><p>Meta Platforms goes to court on Monday – one of several trials in the coming weeks...</p><p>testing allegations that the company's social media platforms were intentionally built to be addictive.</p><p>Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state's consumer protection law...</p><p>by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use...</p><p>and misleading the public about its safety.</p><p>The lawsuit, filed by the attorney general's office, claims Meta failed to disclose extensive internal research..</p><p>showing Instagram could harm teens.</p><p>And that it continued offering features it knew were dangerous without warning users.</p><p>A Meta spokesperson said in a statement on Friday that the company already has built-in controls...</p><p>to protect the hundreds of thousands of Tennessee teens who use social media every day.</p><p>The company has argued the state's claims are based on the content posted on Instagram by its users...</p><p>and that a federal law shields the company from liability for third-party content.</p><p>The trial is slated to last for seven weeks.</p><p>It's scheduled to overlap with at least two other trials against the company in courts in California.</p><p>Meta faces thousands of lawsuits over similar claims in both state and federal court.</p><p>Nearly every state in the country has filed claims against Meta over its platforms’ alleged impact on children.</p></body>
