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Seattle Public Schools<\/a> filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media<\/a> companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.
It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media<\/a>, and providing additional training to teachers.
“Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms<\/a>,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ....”
Meta<\/a>, Google, Snap and TikTok<\/a> did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
While federal law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — helps protect online companies from liability arising from what third-party users post on their platforms, the lawsuit argues that provision does not protect the tech giants' behavior in this case.
“Plaintiff is not alleging Defendants are liable for what third-parties have said on Defendants’ platforms but, rather, for Defendants’ own conduct,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants affirmatively recommend and promote harmful content to youth, such as pro-anorexia and eating disorder content.\"
The lawsuit says that from 2009 to 2019, there was on average a 30% increase in the number of Seattle Public Schools<\/a> students who reported feeling “so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row\" that they stopped doing some typical activities.
The school district is asking the court to order the companies to stop creating the public nuisance, to award damages, and to pay for prevention education and treatment for excessive and problematic use of social media.
While hundreds of families are pursuing lawsuits against the companies over harms they allege their children have suffered from social media, it's not clear if any other school districts have filed a complaint like Seattle's.
Internal studies revealed by Facebook<\/a> whistleblower Frances Haugen<\/a> in 2021 showed that the company knew that Instagram<\/a> negatively affected teenagers by harming their body image and making eating disorders and thoughts of suicide worse. She alleged that the platform prioritized profits over safety and hid its own research from investors and the public.
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西雅图学校苏科技巨头在社交媒体伤害
西雅图公立学校星期五在美国地方法院提起的诉讼。这份长达91页的抱怨说,社交媒体公司已经创建了一个公害,针对他们的产品对儿童。指责他们心理健康恶化和行为障碍包括焦虑、抑郁、饮食失调和网络欺凌;使它更难教育学生。
西雅图公立学校星期五在美国地方法院提起的诉讼。这份长达91页的抱怨说社交媒体公司已经创建了一个公害,针对他们的产品对儿童。
指责他们心理健康恶化和行为障碍包括焦虑、抑郁、饮食失调和网络欺凌;使它更难教育学生;并迫使学校采取措施如雇佣额外的心理健康专家,开发课程计划的影响社交媒体,为教师提供额外的培训。
“被告已经成功地利用了脆弱的大脑青春,连接全国成千上万的学生进入积极的反馈回路的过度使用和滥用的被告社交媒体平台起诉书说,“。“更糟糕的是,内容被告牧师和直接向青年往往是有害的、侵犯....”
元、谷歌、吸附和TikTok周六没有立即回复记者的置评请求。
尽管联邦法律——《通信规范法》第230节的帮助保护在线公司责任引起的第三方用户发布在他们的平台上,在诉状中称,条款不保护科技巨头的行为在这种情况下。
“原告不是指控被告在被告承担第三方所说的平台,而是对被告的行为,“诉讼说。“被告断然地建议,促进有害内容的青年,支持和进食障碍等内容。”
该诉讼称,从2009年到2019年,有平均的数量增加了30%西雅图公立学校学生感觉如此悲伤或绝望几乎每天都连续两周以上”,他们停止了一些典型的活动。
学区是请求法院责令企业停止创建公害,违约赔偿,支付预防教育和治疗过度和使用社交媒体的问题。
在数百个家庭追求诉讼对公司危害他们声称自己的孩子遭受社会媒体,目前还不清楚如果其他学区有像西雅图的投诉。
内部研究显示脸谱网告密者Frances Haugen显示,2021年该公司知道Instagram负面影响青少年伤害他们的身体形象,让饮食紊乱和自杀的想法变得更糟。她声称,该平台优先利润在安全性和隐藏自己的研究从投资者和公众。
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