Durham Public Schools joins social media lawsuit

This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Durham Public Schools will join hundreds of other school systems, including 14 in North Carolina, and 42 attorneys general, in a lawsuit against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap for the detrimental effects they say the companies’ products have had on students. The school board voted unanimously to join the suit on Thursday after a presentation by attorney Janet Ward Black of Ward Black Law, a personal injury firm based in Greensboro. The firm’s legal team is representing more than 60...