From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, a look inside a historic set of new lawsuits filed by dozens of states accusing the

country's largest social media company of lowering children onto its platforms

and hooking them onto its products.

My colleague Natasha Singer has been reviewing the state's evidence and trying to understand the long-term strategy behind the lawsuits.

It's Wednesday, November 15th.

Natasha, the last time you and I spoke, the state of Utah had just tried to restrict

the use of social media by children, passed a first of its kind law.

Today, you come to us with something related but on a vastly different scale.

Right, when we were talking about Utah, it was a single state trying to restrict

social media on behalf of young people. And now what we have...

Good morning everyone. Good morning, good morning.

Good morning.

And thank you for joining me today.

There is a youth mental health crisis in America.

And we need to act. Is dozens of states banding together?

So today, myself and 42 other attorney generals across this nation are announcing collective action.

A kind of astonishing coalition of red states like Texas and Tennessee and blue liberal states like Massachusetts.

Today my office has filed a lawsuit against

Meta platforms Incorporated the company formerly known as Facebook

for knowingly harming the mental health of young social media users.

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