FAIRVIEW TWP — The Karns City Area School District board of education voted Monday to join a federal lawsuit against various social media outlets that have “promoted unchecked social media to adolescents” according to superintendent Eric Ritzert.

Named as defendants are Meta Platforms (Facebook’s parent company), Meta Payments, Siculus, Facebook Operations, Instagram, Snap, TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, Google and YouTube.

While all of the districts involved in the suit are seeking settlements for damages caused to student population, Ritzert said that, ideally, what comes out of this lawsuit is more vigilance from social media outlets on content posted by adolescents.