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One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube, Snap, and TikTok also settled, but there’s still thousands of cases on deck. YouTube, Snap, and TikTok also settled, but there’s still thousands of cases on deck. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After back-to-back losses in trials grappling with its impact on teens’ mental health, Meta just settled what was supposed to be its next legal battle with Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District. Google’s YouTube, Snap, and TikTok all recently settled similar claims brought by the school district, which was seeking payment from the companies to cover the cost of combatting social media-related mental health harms. The trial had been set to begin in June as the first bellwether trial of the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) cases, which include claims from school districts, s

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Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district

Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its social networks are…

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Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district

Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its…

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Meta settles social media addiction case with US school district

Meta has reached a settlement with a US school district which had sued the Instagram-owner over the costs of fighting a mental health crisis allegedly caused by the company's social media platforms. Breathitt School…

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One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement

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Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its social networks are…

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Meta has reached a settlement with a US school district which had sued the Instagram-owner over the costs of fighting a mental health crisis allegedly caused by the company's social media platforms. Breathitt School District, located in…

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