SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Several social media companies agreed to pay about $27 million to a Kentucky school district as part of a settlement for a lawsuit blaming them for a student mental health crisis, according to court documents reviewed Monday by AFP.

The sum included $9 million by Facebook parent company Meta; $8 million each from Snapchat parent Snap and ByteDance, which owns TikTok; and Google, whose portfolio includes YouTube, will pay around $2 million cash and offer training and software licenses valued at $900,000.

The case was brought by the Breathitt County school district, a rural district in eastern Kentucky whose lawsuit had been chosen as a test case for more than 1,200 similar suits filed by school districts across the country.