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Torts/Personal Injury,
Class Action

Jul. 15, 2026

Investigators mine a Meta whistleblower's 2021 disclosures to build discovery roadmaps

Internal research a former Meta product manager leaked years before the MDL was filed is now guiding custodian lists and search terms as bellwether trials get underway.

Harry Kazakian

Founder and CEO
USA Express, Inc.

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Tigran Martinian

Founder
Martinian Lawyers

Abraham Lincoln University; Los Angeles CA

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Investigators mine a Meta whistleblower's 2021 disclosures to build discovery roadmaps
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The Breathitt County School District's lawsuit against Snapchat, Meta, TikTok and YouTube was supposed to settle, once and for all, whether social media platforms could be held liable for intentionally designing addictive technologies that send kids to counselors' offices and, sometimes, hospital beds.

The Jackson, Kentucky, school district's case was expected to be the first of an estimated 1,300 similar lawsuits included in the federal MDL, all blaming...

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