Meta began deactivating ads from personal injury attorneys seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under 18, with Axios identifying more than a dozen deactivated ads from large national firms including Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law. The removals come two weeks after a California jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction case and awarded $6M in damages, with lawyers now racing to recruit plaintiffs for potential class action suits. Meta cited its terms of service in justifying the removals, with a spokesperson saying “we will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful.”
