The Breathitt County settlement closes the trial that had been set for June 12 in Oakland. Roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits sit behind it.
Meta has settled the first US school-district lawsuit set for trial seeking to make social media companies pay for the cost of addressing a youth mental health crisis its critics say the platforms helped create.
The agreement, disclosed in a court filing on Thursday, fully resolves the case brought by Breathitt County School District in eastern Kentucky and follows settlements earlier in the week by co-defendants YouTube, Snap and TikTok. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Kentucky case had been selected as a bellwether out of roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits and was scheduled to go to trial on 12 June before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California, in Oakland.
Breathitt had sought more than $60m to fund a 15-year mental-health programme. The settlement removes the trial from the calendar.
