Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400+ school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts
Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children's attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
I was deeply unimpressed when @NationalPTA stayed on the sidelines during COVID, as parents took to the streets to get schools reopened. This, however, is a new low.
We don't know whether it was smartphones/social-media or edtech that was the bigger contributor to the decline in education outcomes that began in the 2010s. But new revelations show the tricks Meta, Snap, and Tiktok used to lure students during the school day. Still more reaso…
Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube knowingly & purposefully target students in school to hook kids on their addictive products for life. Kids need more hands-on learning, not corporations competing for ways to distract them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...
Illinois is protecting our kids where Washington and Big Tech have refused to. — The Social Media Platform Fee requires companies to pay for the mental health and educational degradation they've caused — and we're banning cell phones during the school day.
This is an illuminating survey of how major social media companies make it their business to hook school children on distracting, mindless “under the desk” scrolling as an alternative to education. #NoScreensInSchool — www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...