{"id":1061,"date":"2024-05-30T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/7-more-canadian-schools-and-boards-sue-social-media-giants-seek-2-6b-in-damages\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:28:03","slug":"7-more-canadian-schools-and-boards-sue-social-media-giants-seek-2-6b-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/7-more-canadian-schools-and-boards-sue-social-media-giants-seek-2-6b-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"7 More Canadian Schools and Boards Sue Social Media Giants, Seek $2.6B in Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seven more Canadian schools and boards of education have filed multibillion-dollar lawsuits accusing tech giants Meta, TikTok and Snapchat of disrupting student learning and the education system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolsforsocialmediachange.ca\/members\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lawsuits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from two private religious schools, three Catholic and one public school board in Ontario, Canada\u2019s largest province, are seeking CA$2.6 billion (US$1.9 billion) in damages to compensate for the massive strain on resources resulting from the companies\u2019 social media products they claim were negligently designed for compulsive use resulting in rewiring the way children think, behave and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven more Canadian schools and boards of education have filed multibillion-dollar lawsuits accusing tech giants Meta, TikTok and Snapchat of disrupting student learning and the education system. The\u00a0lawsuits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1505,1503,1502,532,1504,410,161,550,571,440],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-2-6b","tag-boards","tag-canadian","tag-damages","tag-giants","tag-media","tag-schools","tag-seek","tag-social","tag-sue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}