This article was published on August 26, 2026 Meta says it will pay about $18bn over ten years to settle the states' teen safety case. Roughly $5.3bn of that stays with the company unless TikTok and YouTube adopt a one-hour daily limit, night mode and age assurance, and each pays a matching sum. Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the states’ case. Meta puts the full payment at approximately $18bn, paid in annual instalments over ten years. Court papers reported earlier put the maximum at $16.68bn. The company frames the whole agreement as a new industry standard, and says it cannot deliver one on its own. Participating states take roughly 70% of it, about $12.7bn, across the decade. Meta says that money can fund youth online safety initiatives and other state priorities. The other 30%, about $5.3bn, depends on two things happening. Meta lists both. The first is that YouTube and TikTok implement a one-hour daily limit, night mode and age assurance measures. The second is t
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