Big Tech loses bid to toss lawsuits alleging social media platforms harmed children

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On a December afternoon in 2020, Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz drove to Redwood Regional Park, just east of Oakland, Calif., for a mysterious meeting. For months, he’d been working on a story about Facebook, albeit with little luck finding anyone from the company willing to talk. But then he reached out to a mid-level product manager on Facebook’s Civic Integrity team, Haugen, 35, who had important information to share.