Meta has reached a settlement with a Kentucky school district over accusations the company purposely designed their platforms to addict youth, Erin Mulvaney and Meghan Bobrowksy of The Wall Street Journal reports. The settlement spares the company from handling the first trial among over 1,200 lawsuits brought by school districts alleging student mental-health harms caused by social media platforms from Meta, TikTok, Snap (SNAP), and YouTube (GOOGL). Meta was the last of the tech companies to reach a settlement for the lawsuit, with TikTok, Snap, and YouTube settling last week.
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