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Ontario school boards sue social media giants for $4.5B | CBC News
Four major school boards in Ontario are taking several social media giants to court, alleging their products Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok are harming students and disrupting the education system.
"These social media companies ... have knowingly created a product that is addictive and marketed to kids," said Rachel Chernos Lin, the chair of the Toronto District School Board, on CBC Radio's Metro Morning on Thursday. 5 months agoWith most children and teenagers spending hours a day on a smartphone, CBC’s Christine Birak breaks down what research shows about how using social media is changing kids’ behaviour, if it's rewiring their brains and what can be done about it. Duncan Embury, a partner and head of litigation at Neinstein, told CBC News the named companies are "mainly responsible" for the social media products that kids use, and share "common" designs or algorithms that lead to "problematic use."
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