A federal appeals court just cleared the path for thousands of families to keep fighting Big Tech over claims that social media platforms were built to keep kids hooked. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed early appeals by Meta and TikTok. The ruling leaves more than 3,000 federal lawsuits active against Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google/YouTube, ByteDance/TikTok, Snap/Snapchat and other companies. There are reports about more than 3,000 federal lawsuits in the multidistrict litigation in Northern California. In another estimate, the number of federal lawsuits is between 2,400 to 2,600.