{"id":74988,"date":"2026-06-17T07:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/at-age-18-hes-already-graduated-law-school-now-he-wants-to-fight-extremely-predatory-social-media-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:55:22","slug":"at-age-18-hes-already-graduated-law-school-now-he-wants-to-fight-extremely-predatory-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/at-age-18-hes-already-graduated-law-school-now-he-wants-to-fight-extremely-predatory-social-media-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"At age 18, he\u2019s already graduated law school. Now he wants to fight \u2018extremely predatory\u2019 social media companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Chilimigras graduated high school at 12 and is now pursuing a master of laws degree \u2013 and he wants to find \u2018an area to do some good\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Mississippi teenager who in May became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/mississippi-teen-graduate-law-school\">one of the youngest ever law school graduates<\/a> says he wants to help reform US tax law as well as litigate against social media companies over claims that they design their products to be addictive \u2013 and therefore harmful \u2013 to youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re creating is extremely predatory and harmful, and yet they\u2019re sending it out knowing that it\u2019s \u2026 harmful and not really taking any action to reduce the harm or address it,\u201d 18-year-old Jimmy Chilimigras said with respect to his interest in participating in such social media litigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/17\/jimmy-chilimigras-teen-law-school-graudate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Chilimigras graduated high school at 12 and is now pursuing a master of laws degree \u2013 and he wants to find \u2018an area to do some good\u2019 A Mississippi teenager who in May became one of the youngest ever law school graduates says he wants to help reform US tax law as well as &#8230; <a title=\"At age 18, he\u2019s already graduated law school. Now he wants to fight \u2018extremely predatory\u2019 social media companies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/at-age-18-hes-already-graduated-law-school-now-he-wants-to-fight-extremely-predatory-social-media-companies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about At age 18, he\u2019s already graduated law school. Now he wants to fight \u2018extremely predatory\u2019 social media companies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}