{"id":1162,"date":"2026-05-16T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:34:23","slug":"snap-youtube-and-tiktok-settle-suit-over-harm-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person holding up a smartphone with their face covered by pixels\" data-caption=\"Schools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/STKS526_SOCIAL_MEDIA_TRIAL_CVIRGINIA_D_1b4bb5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tSchools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of money, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-15\/snap-youtube-settle-school-social-media-suit-ahead-of-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>. The suit, filed by the Breathitt County School District in Kentucky, claims that social media has disrupted learning and created a mental health crisis, straining budgets. The terms of the settlement have not been revealed yet, and Meta is still facing a trial in the same suit, which is viewed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/867830\/social-media-trials-product-liability-school-districts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bellwether<\/a> for over 1,000 similar lawsuits across the country<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This follows an earlier case, settled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/864735\/snap-reaches-a-settlement-in-a-social-media-addiction-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snap<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/868619\/tiktok-moves-to-settle-a-major-social-media-addiction-case-shortly-before-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, in which a 19-year-old plaintiff claimed signif \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/932153\/snap-youtube-tiktok-lawsuit-social-media-addiction-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}