Date:

30 May 2026

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Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube have agreed to pay about USD27m to settle a lawsuit brought by a Kentucky school district over alleged harms to students’ mental health from social media platforms. The case was the first federal test case selected from wider litigation against social media companies involving about 1,200 school districts across the US, and had been scheduled to go to trial in June.

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21 May 2026

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Meta has joined TikTok, Snap and YouTube in settling claims brought by a Kentucky school district alleging that the companies designed addictive social media platforms that harmed students’ mental health. The case was the first federal test case selected from wider litigation against social media companies involving about 1,200 school districts across the US, and had been scheduled to go to trial in June. The next school-district test case, brought by Tucson Unified School District, is scheduled for early 2027.

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17 May 2026

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Article

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a Kentucky school district alleging that the platforms are impacting the students' mental health. The financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, is not part of the settlement and will face trial in June.

Date:

29 Jul 2025

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Article

Hartford County Public Schools sued Meta, Google, ByteDance and Snap Inc. in 2023, alleging that the companies' addictive products impacted nearly 40,000 students, putting pressure on the district to provide more mental health resources. School districts across the U.S. have joined the federal class action lawsuit. A US District Judge chose six school systems to serve as bellwethers, or test cases that will go to trial first, ahead of the others.

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14 Nov 2023

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Article

The judge ruled the companies were not immune from the lawsuit under federal law and that they owed a duty of care to their users. However, the judge found this duty did not extend to harm emanating from third-party platform users.

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25 Oct 2023

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Article

States in the United States of America have joined forces to sue Meta for the alleged impact Instagram and Facebook have on children and young people. The complaint claims that the company exploits young users for profit following an investigation conducted in 2021 into claims that Meta contributes to mental health issues among young people.

Date:

10 Oct 2023

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Article

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against TikTok, Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms and Snap Inc. The implicated social media companies are challenging the assertion that their services are harming children's mental health.

Date:

24 May 2023

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Article

Multiple cases have been filed by school districts and local governments alleging that social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok and Youtube harm children and teenagers' mental health.

Date:

23 May 2023

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Article

The US Surgeon General has issued a 25-page advisory warning that social media poses a significant risk to children's mental health and well-being, citing evidence of negative outcomes such as depression and anxiety.

Date:

29 Mar 2023

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Article

Arkansas joins the growing list of U.S. states suing tech companies over mental health and child safety concerns.

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8 Jan 2023

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Article

Seattle’s public school district is suing TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube claiming that social media worsen a growing youth mental health crisis that interferes with teachers’ ability to do their jobs and overwhelms schools pressuring its limited resources.