{"id":1010920,"date":"2026-05-30T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010920"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:14:12","slug":"social-media-companies-pay-27-million-to-settle-kentucky-school-districts-lawsuit-over-social-media-harms-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/social-media-companies-pay-27-million-to-settle-kentucky-school-districts-lawsuit-over-social-media-harms-records-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media companies pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district&#8217;s lawsuit over social media harms, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million \u200bin settlements from social media companies over claims they \u200bfueled a student mental-health crisis, with Meta Platforms paying the largest amount at $9 million, according to records \u200bseen by Reuters on Friday that reveal the settlement&#8217;s financial terms for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Meta settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks before a planned June trial, following earlier settlements by co-defendants Snap Inc , YouTube parent Alphabet and TikTok parent ByteDance. Terms of the deals \u200chad not been disclosed \u2060in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million \u200bin settlements from social media companies over claims they \u200bfueled a student mental-health crisis, with Meta Platforms paying the largest amount at $9 million, according to records \u200bseen by Reuters on Friday that reveal the settlement&#8217;s financial terms for the first time. Meta settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks before a planned June trial, following earlier settlements by co-defendants Snap Inc , YouTube parent Alphabet and TikTok parent ByteDance. Terms of the deals \u200chad not been disclosed \u2060in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010949,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010920\/revisions\/1010949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}