Meta reached a settlement with Breathitt County School District in Kentucky in a bellwether lawsuit testing claims that social media harms students’ mental health and learning. The case was on track for trial next month in federal court in Oakland and included 1,200 similar cases filed by other school districts. The district had sought more than $60 million for a 15-year program to address mental health and learning effects attributed to social media addiction. Other defendants in the same case group previously settled, including TikTok, Snap, and YouTube. The settlement follows earlier court outcomes in California and New Mexico where Meta and YouTube were found liable for designing addictive features that contributed to harms, including damages awarded to a plaintiff identified by initials KGM.