Arguing that social media companies are violating the state public nuisance law, the lawsuit seeks financial damages and other remedies from the owners of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube."Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants' social media platforms," the lawsuit said."Most youth primarily use five platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook, on which they spend many hours a day," Seattle Public Schools said Friday in a statement on the lawsuit."Defendants have maximized the time users—particularly youth—spend on their platforms by purposely designing, refining, and operating them to exploit the neurophysiology of the brain's reward systems to keep users coming back, coming back frequently, and staying on the respective platforms for as long as possible," the complaint said.The social networks profit from young users and "have blatantly violated" the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requirement "to obtain 'verifiable parental consent' prior to collecting and using information about children under age 13," the lawsuit claimed."