Seattle Public Schools is suing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat for exacerbating the mental health crisis among its students.
"We want teens to be safe online," Meta Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis told NPR in an email."We don't allow content that promotes suicide, self-harm or eating disorders, and of the content we remove or take action on, we identify over 99% of it before it's reported to us."Jose Castenada, a Google spokesperson, said that the company, which owns YouTube, has"introduced strong protections and dedicated features to prioritize their well being.
"Our students - and young people everywhere - face unprecedented learning and life struggles that are amplified by the negative impacts of increased screen time, unfiltered content, and potentially addictive properties of social media," said Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones in a statement.
"Our obligation is to create the conditions for students to thrive and have high quality learning experiences," said Jones."The harm caused by these companies runs counter to that." Right now, the public school system has a very steep legal road to climb, according to Ryan Calo, a professor at University of Washington's School of Law. But if the plaintiffs in the case before the Supreme Court are successful, it could open the door to this kind of argument, he said.
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