Seattle School District #1 filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking a judge to rule that big tech had caused a disturbance and seeks monetary damages in addition to funding to prevent and treat the overuse of social media. With this, Seattle schools are effectively suing big tech over youth mental health crisis.
The Seattle City School District is suing a number of well-known social media companies because they are to blame for the current mental health problem.
As stated in the lawsuit, which was issued against Alphabet, Meta, Snap, and TikTok owner ByteDance late Friday in federal court in Seattle, students have been experiencing anxiety, depression, and other psychological issues as a result of their usage of social media.
Around 50,000 students are served by the district's more than 100 schools.
The suit appears to be the first of its kind in the US brought by a school district, following similar claims filed last year by scores of families, including more than a dozen bl...