Parents are suing Snapchat after their son died over a fentanyl pill he allegedly got from the app
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The parents of a 14-year-old boy who died more than 2 years ago after taking a fentanyl-containing pill they say they got from a dealer he found on Snapchat are now suing the drug company. social media on trial for his death.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, Amy and Aaron Neville, along with a handful of other parents who lost their children in a similar fate, are suing Snapchat, claiming it "facilitates the overwhelming majority of deadly sales of fentanyl".< /p>
The documents state that Snap's process for disabling known dangerous accounts on the platform is broken...saying "Snap does not provide any reporting mechanism, staffed email address, or even a phone number. phone allowing users to report underage, dangerous or violating use of its social media product."
The lawsuit also alleges that Snap is specifically designed to attract children and illicit activity, pointing to features such as disappearing messages that make it difficult to track illegal drug transactions that may be taking place on the app.< /p>
Amy is now vice president of Void, a nonprofit that fights the spread of illegal drugs like fentanyl, and her organization recently claimed that social media companies aren't doing enough to cut the tie between children and dealers. .
She said accessing the drug through the app was way too easy...thinking Alexander wouldn't have put himself in a situation that was in person, but dealing behind a screen made it right much simpler.
Snapchat recently said it was working to fix the problem...by doubling down on efforts to ban drug dealer accounts and blocking search results that involve drug-related keywords.
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The parents of a 14-year-old boy who died more than 2 years ago after taking a fentanyl-containing pill they say they got from a dealer he found on Snapchat are now suing the drug company. social media on trial for his death.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, Amy and Aaron Neville, along with a handful of other parents who lost their children in a similar fate, are suing Snapchat, claiming it "facilitates the overwhelming majority of deadly sales of fentanyl".< /p>
The documents state that Snap's process for disabling known dangerous accounts on the platform is broken...saying "Snap does not provide any reporting mechanism, staffed email address, or even a phone number. phone allowing users to report underage, dangerous or violating use of its social media product."
The lawsuit also alleges that Snap is specifically designed to attract children and illicit activity, pointing to features such as disappearing messages that make it difficult to track illegal drug transactions that may be taking place on the app.< /p>
Amy is now vice president of Void, a nonprofit that fights the spread of illegal drugs like fentanyl, and her organization recently claimed that social media companies aren't doing enough to cut the tie between children and dealers. .
She said accessing the drug through the app was way too easy...thinking Alexander wouldn't have put himself in a situation that was in person, but dealing behind a screen made it right much simpler.
Snapchat recently said it was working to fix the problem...by doubling down on efforts to ban drug dealer accounts and blocking search results that involve drug-related keywords.
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