Meta Platforms Inc., ByteDance Ltd., Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. must face trial over claims that they designed their social media platforms to addict youths, a judge ruled, clearing the way for the first of thousands of cases to be presented to juries.
But I saw many class actions and mass torts that seemed designed only to transfer money from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to plaintiffs' lawyers. Whether a drug or device actually harmed anyone was beside the point; anyone who was actually hurt could file their own individual lawsuit. The class actions and mass torts picked up the stragglers, whose situations didn't merit filing a case - people who overpaid for an allegedly dangerous drug
