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Oct. 24, 2023

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Thirty-three states accused Meta and Instagram of contributing to a youth mental health crisis.
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Trump inflated asset values ‘arbitrarily’, former lawyer Michael Cohen says on stand

Michael Cohen in New York State Supreme Court, Oct. 24, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Donald Trump “arbitrarily” inflated the value of his real estate assets in order to secure favorable insurance premiums, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified at the former president’s civil fraud case. Cohen, who cut ties with Trump five years ago, is a key witness in a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleging Trump inflated the value of his family companies’ properties. Read more about Cohen’s testimony.

Trump faces numerous legal troubles as he seeks the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Late Monday, Trump stepped up his bid to have criminal charges against him over efforts to overturn his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss dropped, filing a flurry of motions overnight. The filings came just hours before another former lawyer for Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty to helping Trump’s efforts to overturn his election defeat in Georgia and agreed to testify against Trump if called upon. Trump denies any wrongdoing.

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Instagram linked to depression, anxiety, insomnia in kids – U.S. states’ lawsuit

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Thirty-three states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the addictive nature of their social media platforms. The complaint was filed in the Oakland, California, federal court on Tuesday. Read more about the lawsuit.

Read the complaint.

The lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal actions against social media companies on behalf of children and teens. ByteDance’s TikTok and Google’s YouTube are also the subjects of the hundreds of lawsuits filed on behalf of children and school districts about the addictiveness of social media.

Justice Thomas’ rare recusal was an attempt at damage control and little else

Justice Clarence Thomas recently recused himself for the first time in one of the cases related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election, sitting out of lawyer John Eastman’s petition to prevent certain documents from being disclosed in a Congressional investigation. The decision follows months of calls for the justice to recuse himself from those cases because of apparent conflicts, but it doesn’t necessarily signal a change in Thomas’ approach toward questions of ethics, columnist Hassan Kanu writes. The low stakes at play in Eastman’s essentially moot case and Thomas’ decision not to sit out of earlier cases with arguably worse conflicts suggest he simply took an easy opportunity to do some damage control.

Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu

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