Social media companies have settled a case with a US school district that was due to go to trial next month in Oakland, California federal court, averting the first case of its kind.
The case, brought by a small rural Kentucky school district, is one of 1,200 similar cases that was chosen as a bellwether for the parties to see how their arguments fare before a jury.
In each of the cases, school districts are suing for compensation for costs they say they’ve incurred dealing with children’s mental health from social media addiction.
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Facebook and Instagram parent Meta was the last to settle, on 21 May, days after Snapchat parent Snap, TikTok, and Google’s YouTube reached separate settlements.
