A 19-year-old girl and her family are suing social media giant , claiming that it knowingly created 'addictive' features that caused her to develop an eating disorder and suicidal feelings at a young age.The first-of-its-kind lawsuit, filed Monday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of , relies heavily on a trove of leaked internal Meta documents that revealed the tech giant knew was harmful to young girls' mental health.It was filed by the Social Media Victims Law Center, a Seattle-based group that advocates for families of teens harmed online, on behalf of 19-year-old Alexis Spence - who created her first Instagram account at the age of 11 without her parents' consent and in violation of the platform's minimum age requirement of 13.
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