The ruling is in addition to the $375 million Meta was ordered to pay in the same lawsuit in March. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million for failing to warn the public about the dangers its social media platforms posed to children. The judgment is in addition to the $375 million the Instagram and Facebook parent company was ordered to pay in March as part of the trial’s first phase. In a ruling late Thursday, Judge Bryan Biedcheid wrote that New Mexico teens are in the midst of a mental health crisis and found that “Meta’s platforms are a significant contributing cause to the crisis.” The $567 million will fund awareness and prevention, screening and assessment, and referral programs, with the bulk — $420 million — going to treatment. Biedscheid’s ruling called Facebook’s platforms a “public nuisance” and compared Meta to a factory, with advertising and other content displayed o
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Meta's $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with nearly every US state is about more than money. As part of the deal, Facebook and Instagram have agreed to bring in several significant measures to protect children online - though Meta has not…
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Meta's $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with nearly every US state is about more than money. As part of the deal, Facebook and Instagram have agreed to bring in several significant measures to protect children online - though…
Read original at BBC →Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to Britain The UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it…
Read original at The Guardian →Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all-clear to say the product is safe’ Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram in settlement The star witness in…
Read original at The Guardian →This article was published on August 26, 2026 Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims from 29 US states that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children. The deal, struck in the second…
Read original at The Next Web →CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would've been a disastrous, high-stakes trial. Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has struck a deal with the US states currently suing the tech giant for…
Read original at CNET →The head of Instagram is the first high-profile exec to testify in the latest social media addiction trial. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took the stand in Meta's latest trial over social media addiction and children's…
Read original at Engadget →This article was published on August 19, 2026 The Tech Transparency Project says Meta stages branded events and pays local influencers to argue that its Teen Accounts make social media bans unnecessary. The tactics have…
Read original at The Next Web →Meta’s business relies on hooking young people and exploiting their data and attention, a lawyer for a group of state attorneys general argued in opening statements for the latest blockbuster trial against the social…
Read original at CNN →Meta heads to federal court in Oakland, California, on Tuesday in a trial brought by four states alleging the company’s flagship platforms, Facebook and Instagram, were designed to be addictive to children. The…
Read original at Gizmodo →Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet In the months since Australia’s social media ban, Meta says it has blocked 462,000 Instagram accounts and 294,000 Facebook accounts that appeared to…
Read original at The Verge →After initially being tested by “select creators,” Creator Studio is now available for iOS users in the US and Canada. The original Creator Studio page manager experience was shut down in 2023, but Meta describes this…
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Read original at The Guardian →New Mexico is challenging Meta's platforms, Facebook and Instagram, over child safety concerns. Kurt 'CyberGuy' Knutsson explains that Meta faces a potential $3.7 billion in penalties if found to be a public nuisance.…
Read original at Fox News →Meta is a 'public nuisance,' the judge has ruled, and its effects migrate to the real world. In March, a jury in New Mexico found Meta liable for violating the state's consumer protection laws in a case brought by its…
Read original at Engadget →Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at…
Read original at The Guardian →The ruling is in addition to the $375 million Meta was ordered to pay in the same lawsuit in March. A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million for failing to warn the public about the dangers its social…
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Meta's $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with nearly every US state is about more than money. As part of the deal, Facebook and Instagram have agreed to bring in several significant measures to protect children online - though Meta has not…
View source →Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to Britain The UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it agreed in the US on…
View source →Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all-clear to say the product is safe’ Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram in settlement The star witness in the US government’s…
View source →This article was published on August 26, 2026 Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims from 29 US states that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children. The deal, struck in the second week of the Oakland…
View source →CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will avoid what likely would've been a disastrous, high-stakes trial. Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has struck a deal with the US states currently suing the tech gi
View source →The head of Instagram is the first high-profile exec to testify in the latest social media addiction trial. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took the stand in Meta's latest trial over social media addiction and children's privacy Tuesday.…
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Israel has threatened to close the consulate, which handles UK relations with Palestinians in the city, over British sanctions on Israeli settlements.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon says a so-called windfall tax on domestic banks in the UK is unfair and lacks principle. Dimon says it would raise the…
