Seattle public schools blame tech giants for social media harm in lawsuit

Seattle’s public school district filed a lawsuit against Big Tech claiming the companies were responsible for a worsening mental health crisis among students and directly affected the schools’ ability to carry out their educational mission.

The complaint, filed on Friday against Alphabet Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Snap Inc and TikTok-owner ByteDance with the US District Court, claimed they purposefully designed their products to hook young people to their platforms and were creating a mental health crisis.