A Tennessee school district has joined a growing list of school systems across the nation that are suing major social media companies like TikTok and YouTube over a crisis in student mental health.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools filed its lawsuit earlier this month through the California-based Frantz Law Group and Tennessee-based law offices of Lewis Thomason.
Other Tennessee districts are interested in joining the suit, said Chris McCarty, a Knoxville attorney who is helping to coordinate litigants.
The case’s arrival in Tennessee comes as the nation’s top health official issued a warning last week about the risks of social media to young people.
While social media can be beneficial, its effects on adolescent mental health are not fully understood, and it “can also have a profound risk of harm,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said