California Judge Rules Families of Dead Children Can Sue Snapchat Over Their Kids Using the App to Buy Fentanyl
A California judge has ruled that a lawsuit against Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, over children purchasing fentanyl can proceed.
The lawsuit involves 60 families who claim that their children purchased the drug on the app and overdosed, many of them fatally.
The families accuse Snap of multiple wrongdoings — including product defects, negligence, and wrongful death.
NBC News reports:
Relatives of over 60 young people who died from fentanyl overdoses sued Snap in October 2022 over its messaging platform Snapchat’s disappearing message feature. An extended version of the complaint filed in April 2023 said that “Snap and Snapchat’s role in illicit drug sales to teens was the foreseeable result of the designs,
