Seattle public schools sue TikTok_US and Facebook for hurting teen mental health
Seattle's School District No. 1 filed the suit on Friday against several tech companies in the Western District of Washington. The lawsuit names Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Google, and YouTube as defendants and accuses them of designing their apps to promote addictive conduct.
These habits play a part in the rising rates of anxiety, depression, and thoughts of self-harm and suicide ideation, the school claimed. Seattle's school district claims that between 2009 and 2019, it saw an average 30% increase in students claiming to be"so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that [they] stopped doing some usual activities."
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