{"id":59559,"date":"2023-03-19T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/attorney-details-challenges-in-california-school-boards-legal-battle-with-big-tech-difficult-to-prove-59559"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T14:30:02","slug":"attorney-details-challenges-in-california-school-boards-legal-battle-with-big-tech-difficult-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/attorney-details-challenges-in-california-school-boards-legal-battle-with-big-tech-difficult-to-prove-59559","title":{"rendered":"Attorney details challenges in California school board&#8217;s legal battle with Big Tech: &#8216;Difficult to prove&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A California school board is suing Google, TikTok and Snapchat for causing unprecedented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/teen-girls-dealing-mental-health-crisis-need-connection-most-doctors-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health<\/a> consequences among young people.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube &#8211; which is owned by Google &#8211; are purposefully designed to be addictive platforms that have &#8220;carefully cultivated&#8221; a mental health crisis among U.S. students, a Silicon Valley school board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/youtube-tiktok-snapchat-sued-by-silicon-valley-school-board-monetizing-misery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged in a recent lawsuit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the San Mateo County school board maintains, schools are left to handle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/teen-girls-spend-more-time-sensitive-social-media-harm-mental-health-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health implications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Psychotherapist and author Thomas Kersting told &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/shows\/fox-friends-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox &amp; Friends Weekend<\/a>,&#8221; Sunday, that schools are now part-academic and part-mental health institutions because of an &#8220;overload&#8221; of students with mental health conditions \u2014 some likely caused or exacerbated by social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/youtube-tiktok-snapchat-sued-by-silicon-valley-school-board-monetizing-misery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YOUTUBE, TIKTOK AND SNAPCHAT SUED BY SILICON VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD FOR &#8216;MONETIZING MISERY&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Public safety policy attorney Donte Mills joined the segment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/j\/johnny-joey-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling co-host Joey Jones<\/a> that, despite the dangerous stigma that has become synonymous with social media, the lawsuit will &#8220;be difficult to hold up in court.&#8221; It will be hard to prove that the companies knew their technology would be harmful upon release, Mills stressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These tech companies are definitely capitalizing off of it; they\u2019re making a lot of money off of it,&#8221; said Mills. But, he said, &#8220;I don\u2019t know if anybody truly understood what the impact of social media would be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mills said the Silicon Valley lawsuit would investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/social-media-users-competition-online-clout-real-world-ramifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media companies<\/a>\u2019 internal documents and studies to prove they knew their products were harmful. The lawsuit also alleges that the tech companies acted with negligence, racketeering, public nuisance and violation of unfair competition law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/china-can-use-tiktok-as-propaganda-tool-absolutely-should-banned-sen-warner-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CHINA CAN USE TIKTOK AS \u2018PROPAGANDA\u2019 TOOL, \u2018ABSOLUTELY\u2019 SHOULD BE BANNED, SEN. WARNER SAYS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did they intentionally addict people even though they knew it would be harmful?&#8221; Mills posited. &#8220;That\u2019s going to be hard to prove.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Kersting said the move to file suit may be &#8220;one of the greatest messages&#8221; to take place that will &#8220;that will help households, schools and kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/attorney-challenges-california-school-boards-legal-battle-big-tech-difficult-prove\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/attorney-challenges-california-school-boards-legal-battle-big-tech-difficult-prove <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California school board is suing Google, TikTok and Snapchat for causing unprecedented mental health consequences among young people. 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