The world’s biggest social media platforms have agreed to pay about US$27 million (S$34.5 million) to settle a lawsuit filed by a rural Kentucky school district that alleged their products are addictive and helped create a teen mental health crisis that drained school resources. Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, is paying the school district US$9 million, more than any of the other companies, according to documents released under the state’s open records laws.Google’s YouTube negotiated a payout of slightly more than US$2 million, and was the only company that also agreed to provide the district with training programmes to help teachers better use its video product in classrooms. The settlements, which were announced earlier in May but without financial details, allowed the companies to avert the first trial in the nation over a school district’s complaint, which was scheduled for June 12 in federal court in Oakland, California. Whihc is the best way to deal with repeated non-complince ?
