By Mike Swift ( October 20, 2026, 00:16 GMT | Comment) -- With a first bellwether trial over how social media design affected US schools just over three months away, two school districts in Arizona and South Carolina are trying to exclude evidence of racial conflict, mismanagement and employee misconduct from a February addictive-design trial against Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and YouTube. In a flurry of recent court filings, the Tucson Unified School District and the Charleston County School District asked a federal judge in California to stop the tech companies from telling a jury in February about ugly racial incidents and multi-million-dollar management blunders.As Arizona and South Carolina school systems ramp up for a bellwether addictive design trial against Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and YouTube, the schools are trying to block the defendant companies from injecting racial conflict and management incompetence into the testimony....
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