Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
- Meta Platforms Inc. and a coalition of 29 states are engaged in discussions regarding a potential mid-trial settlement to resolve allegations that Facebook and Instagram are deliberately designed to hook teenage users.
- The high-stakes trial, which opened this month in Oakland, features testimony from Instagram head Adam Mosseri regarding claims the company knowingly fueled a youth mental health crisis while misleading consumers about platform safety.
- Beyond addiction claims, the lawsuit alleges Meta violated the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data from children under 13 without consent, raising implications for how companies train generative AI models.
- While the four leading trial states seek roughly $200 billion, Meta has noted states could demand up to $1.4 trillion; any deal faces complications given varying political calculations across 29 attorneys general.
- Separately, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a potential settlement with an unnamed technology company, while Meta aims to stop the public release of internal documents that could emerge during continued litigation.
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Meta settles in US states lawsuit on teen user addiction
Meta has agreed to pay what could amount to billions of dollars and to implement platform usage limitations on young users in a lawsuit brought by US states. The challenge revolved around addiction issues and overuse.
Several US states accused the company of having designed Facebook and Instagram to create addiction among children.
Meta and several American states have agreed to close through an agreement a historical process involving social networks, according to a document presented to the Justice on Wednesday. By the agreement, the company will have to pay US$ 16.7 billion. The prosecutors of 29 American states accuse Meta of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict adolescents. According to calculations of the company itself quoted by Bloomberg when the…
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram also agreed to make significant changes in the calibration of its products for young users, according to a document placed on file on Wednesday, which still needs to be validated by a federal judge.
The Meta Group has entered into an amicable agreement with several US states regarding the addictive nature of social networks, according to judicial documents. ...
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