Pollution does not stay inside the factory that makes it. That was the comparison Judge Bryan Biedscheid used on Thursday when he ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $567 million and found that the damage its platforms do to children spills out onto families, schools, hospitals and law enforcement. The ruling follows a $375...Read More

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used...Read More

The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) said an online undercover operation has led to the arrest of a 29-year-old Seattle man who believed he was arranging to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex. The suspect had been chatting online with a detective who was in training to conduct these kinds of investigations, according to KCSO...Read More

Updated Aug. 7, 2026, 12:23 p.m. ET The official trailer for “Primetime” hints that the upcoming movie, inspired by “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen, is going to be an extremely tense trip through a ratings-seeking journalist’s psyche. Robert Pattinson exudes maximum intensity as the former NBC News journalist, whose controversial series for “Dateline...Read More

A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest fine against the company over child safety. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the social media giant is a “public nuisance” akin to air pollution and...Read More

Meta has been ordered to pay a record $942 million after a US judge ruled the company failed to protect children from harm on its social media platforms. A court in New Mexico imposed a new $567 million penalty, adding to an earlier $375 million award in the same case. The ruling marks the largest...Read More

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Simon Levy’s crime spree spanned from 2018 to 2025 and included myriad sex attacks on women in public spaces and two killings, as the Metropolitan Police, the British Transport Police (BTP) and the courts failed to stop him. The Met, BTP and Crown Prosecution Service have all admitted failings in how they dealt with Levy,...Read More

If you market music, you probably use one or more of Meta’s platforms to do it, and the target audience for that marketing will often include young people and teenagers. But now, there is a palpable momentum – in a societal and legal sense – behind actions designed to minimise what is being seen as the negative...Read More

Share Meta has been ordered to pay an additional $567 million fine by a New Mexico state court, marking the largest child safety penalty ever issued against the social media giant. The punishment stems from Meta’s failure to warn the public about the dangers its platforms pose to children. Presiding Judge Bryan Biedscheid explicitly declared...Read More