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Thu, May 21, 2026 astatine 12:44 PM CDT 1 min read
May 21 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms connected Thursday reached a colony successful the archetypal lawsuit acceptable for proceedings seeking to marque societal media companies screen the costs that schoolhouse districts accidental they person incurred to combat a intelligence wellness situation allegedly fueled by platforms.
The statement afloat resolves a suit brought by a Kentucky schoolhouse district, pursuing earlier settlements by co-defendants Alphabet's YouTube, Snap and TikTok. The lawsuit had been scheduled for a June 15 proceedings in national tribunal successful Oakland, California.
"We've resolved this lawsuit amicably and stay focused connected our longstanding work to physique protections similar Teen Accounts that assistance teens enactment harmless online, portion giving parents elemental controls to enactment their families," said a spokesperson for Meta.
Breathitt County School District, a tiny rural territory successful Appalachia, accused the companies of designing their platforms to support young users hooked, driving anxiety, slump and self-harm among students and leaving schools to woody with the consequences.
Breathitt is among astir 1,200 schoolhouse districts pursuing akin claims. Its lawsuit was selected arsenic a bellwether, oregon trial case, for those lawsuits.
The suit sought implicit $60 million to screen the costs of counteracting the impact of societal media connected students' intelligence wellness and to money a 15-year intelligence wellness programme to abate the problem. It besides sought a tribunal bid requiring the companies to modify their platforms to trim addictive features.
(Reporting by Courtney Rozen, Alexia Garamfalvi and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Caitlin Webber and David Ljunggren)
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