US social media safety push: Legal fight to classify social media as harmful

A growing legal push in the United States is testing whether social media companies can be treated like manufacturers of harmful products in a strategy that mirrors earlier lawsuits against the tobacco and opioid industries.

Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Oakland, California.

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