“Companies like Instagram and Activision do more than just allow gun companies to reach consumers—they underwrite and mainstream violence to struggling adolescents.”
– Uvalde Families lawyer Josh Koskoff, taking aim at Big Tech’s role in the
Uvalde school shooting (2022). Their lawsuit alleges the realistic guns and gunplay in Activision’s
Call of Duty videogame franchise and targeted Instagram ads from assault rifle manufacturer
Daniel Defense “groomed” the 18-year-old perpetrator to be a mass shooter.
