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Kansas School District Considers Suing Social Media Companies for Child Mental Health Harm [1]
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Date: 2023-06-28
The Shawnee Mission, Kansas school district has asked its attorneys to consider the options for suing social media giants for the mental health harm done to its students. The district serves over 26,000 students in several cities on the Kansas side of the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area.
From TV station KSHB:
The resolution allows the district to ask the attorneys to review litigation options against social media companies like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and others, according to the resolution. The suit would “recover damages suffered by the District as a result of social media companies engaging in deceptive practices by designing and promoting their products to attract and addict children…”
The hyper-local online news site Shawnee Mission Post has additional reporting including links to other actions across the nation.
Shawnee Mission is mulling its own move as dozens of other districts across the U.S. have taken legal action against social media companies, arguing their products are addictive and bad for students’ mental health while also serving as a distraction from classroom instruction.
The action of the school board follows a Surgeon General’s report in may that social media addicts and harms the mental health of children.
Previously Axios had reported in March that lawsuits against social media companies had been filed in Seattle, Florida and New Jersey.
The text of the resolution:
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