Meta removes ads from lawyers recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits two weeks after landmark California verdict

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.”