Youth Social Media Judge Threatens Contempt Against State AGs

The federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by dozens of state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. accusing it of addicting adolescent users threatened to hold state agencies in contempt for failing to produce documents needed for the case.

“I do not take lightly anybody’s failure to comply with federal court orders,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said at a Friday hearing in Oakland, Calif. “Something will happen, I don’t know what. But I guarantee you I will not let this stand.”

The dozens of state AGs, spearheaded by California’s, sued Meta in the US District Court for the Northern District of ...