Uvalde Parents Accuse Meta, ‘Call of Duty’ of Grooming Shooter in Lawsuit

Published on May 25, 2024

Uvalde parents filed lawsuits on Friday against Meta and Activision alleging the companies groomed the teenage gunman responsible for the 2022 school massacre. In two lawsuits, filed in California and Texas, the group of 19 parents says that Meta’s Instagram app and Activision’s Call of Duty first-person shooter game, together with gunmaker Daniel Defense, have “groomed a generation of young men who are socially vulnerable, insecure about their masculinity, and eager to show strength and assert dominance.” “To put a finer point on it: Defendants are chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters,” the lawsuit states. On the second anniversary of the tragedy, the parents claim that the shooter was influenced by content from Instagram and Call of Duty....

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