Teachers union wants $768M Meta settlement used for education funding
- Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark federal lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram's harm to children, introducing protections including a default two-hour daily limit and midnight-to-6 a.m. blocks for users under 18.
- Research has linked social-media engagement to mental health challenges in adolescents; a recent meta-analysis of 45 studies involving more than 33,000 adolescents found significant associations between platform use and body-image and eating-disorder symptoms, with Instagram showing stronger effects.
- The settlement mandates stronger age verification, parental controls, and restrictions on harmful content. Schools and governments increasingly demand that technology companies share responsibility for digital safety rather than placing the burden solely on families.
- Another lawsuit claims Meta allegedly used AI-powered software to target employees with disabilities or those on medical leave. Senior labor and employment counsel Justin O'Keith Higgs indicated employees in California and New York may have a legitimate legal claim.
- Meta has not admitted wrongdoing in either case. Both Simon and Higgs agreed that organizations should exercise caution before leaning too heavily on AI-assisted tools for important workplace decisions.
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Crime Doesn’t Pay, Unless You’re an Illinois Education Reformer – in Which Case, It Doesn’t Not Pay - Regional Media News
Hours after the social media giant Meta agreed last Wednesday to settle a case brought by 47 state attorneys general and implement reforms to protect children from social media harms, the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) issued a demand that all of Illinois' portion of [...]
Teachers union wants $768M Meta settlement used for education funding - The Daily Bo Snerdley
(The Center Square) – Social media giant Meta agreed to a deal with 47 states to settle a joint lawsuit last week, with Illinois set to receive up to $768 million. As the funds were announced, some in the state began calling for it to be used as additional education funding for a budget-strapped Chicago Public Schools. A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general announced a $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms Inc., the parent co…
Arkansas expects millions from Meta settlement. Here’s where other social media cases stand.
Arkansas is on track to receive at least $172 million in a landmark multistate settlement over online child safety. But the state’s other cases against social media platforms are still winding through the courts. Attorney General Tim Griffin and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders have been pushing for more scrutiny on social media firms through lawsuits […]
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Hours after the social media giant Meta agreed last Wednesday to settle a case brought by 47 state attorneys general and implement reforms to protect children from social media harms, the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) issued a demand that all of Illinois’ portion of the $17.1 billion settlement – $768 million – be designated “to address the funding crisis for school districts across the state.”
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