Ottawa should be attentive to the more than $4 billion lawsuit filed by Ontario school boards against Meta, Snapchat and TikTok with the aim of claiming damages for their negative impacts on young people’s learning.
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This is what Léa Clermont-Dion, from the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, believes.
“I don’t know if it will be effective as a remedy, but it shows that there is an emergency, that there are deleterious impacts on education, on the attention of our young people,” she explained. at the microphone of LCN. I have the impression that the federal government should pay special attention to education stakeholders across the country.”
Platforms evolve so quickly that it can be difficult to keep up with new trends in misinformation, she believes. The fact that many organizations are absent from TikTok doesn’t help the problem.
“At the moment, obviously, for an ethical question, TikTok is banned in several schools and institutions. The government does not use it, illustrates Ms. Clermont-Dion. It is important to understand that a lot of misinformation takes place on TikTok. So, how do we prevent things from happening on these social networks if we don’t even have access to them?”
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