Snap Reaches Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims

Snap Inc. has reached an agreement to settle a key plaintiff’s claims that the platform’s design led her to become addicted and caused her mental health problems.

The announcement of a “basic settlement agreement” by Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm, representing the plaintiff, and Faye Paul Teller of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, representing Snap, came during a final status conference Tuesday in California Superior Court, Los Angeles County before Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl.