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Marion School Board Sues Facebook, Instagram, TikTok over Student Addiction to Social Media
Judge says school districts may try to prove platform design drove compulsive use by minors, as a bellwether trial approaches and claims total nearly $500 billion.
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Marion School Board sues Facebook, Instagram, TikTok over student addiction to social media
The Marion County School Board has joined a class action lawsuit against the owners of various social media applications including Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (YouTube), accusing the companies of designing defective apps made to maximize screen time and encourage addictive behavior in adolescents. Read more: Marion School Board sues Facebook, Instagram, TikTok over student addiction to social media
Public Schools and Social Media Addiction: Billions at Stake as Groundbreaking Trial Starts in June
Will public school districts across the country hit the jackpot in their lawsuits targeting companies behind leading social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram (Meta), TikTok (ByteDance), Snapchat (Snap), and YouTube (Google)? Will the districts’ theories—premised on negligence and public nuisance principles and claiming damages for having to handle minors who are supposedly addicted to the defendants’ platforms—succeed this summer …
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