School districts, including LAUSD, are suing Meta, Google and TikTok, demanding they fund student mental health services and overhaul addictive designs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49727760

“More than 1,000 school districts, including LAUSD, are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and others, arguing social media has fueled a youth mental health crisis and drained school resources.”

  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Start with phone bans in schools. Yes plenty of kids will get around them because kids are kids, but it’s a very simple easy starting place

  • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    José Castañeda, a spokesperson for Google, which owns YouTube, said the allegations in the complaints “are simply not true.”

    Hey José, you and your industry are pushing addiction and dependence just as much as big tabacco is. You literally grew up to be that shit guy.