Four of Canada\u2019s largest school boards have launched a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the social media companies Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance, accusing them of acting in a \u201chigh-handed, reckless, malicious, and reprehensible manner\u201d with products the boards claim harm student learning and \u201crewire\u201d how children think, the Guardian reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The four district boards \u2013 Ottawa-Carleton, Toronto, Peel and Toronto Catholic \u2013 filed four separate statements of claim in Ontario\u2019s superior court of justice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent years, educators have spent a growing share of their time in the classroom attempting to get students to focus, the boards said. The Guardian said in its report, adding that they blame the addictive nature of social media and apps like Instagram, TikTok and SnapChat which they say have also led to a spike in cyberbullying and mental health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four of Canada\u2019s largest school boards have launched a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the social media companies Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance, accusing them of acting in a \u201chigh-handed, reckless, malicious, and reprehensible manner\u201d with products the boards claim harm student learning and \u201crewire\u201d how children think, the Guardian reported. The four district boards \u2013 Ottawa-Carleton, Toronto, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":102990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[7350],"class_list":["post-102987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-canadian-schools-accuse-social-media-companies-of-rewiring-how-children-think"],"yoast_head":"\n