Olivia Konar holds a banner with names of young people who advocates say died as a result of social media outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. Her sister Coco Konar died in 2022 when she was 17. Social media company Meta agreed to...Read More
Texas will get more than $1 billion from technology giant Meta as part of a new settlement related to children’s online safety, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday. The company, which owns social media companies Facebook and Instagram, agreed to also pay California and several other states a collective $17 billion on Wednesday as part...Read More
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 29 states that sued the tech giant in...Read More
Save the children. Restore democracy. And ban everyone age 18 and older from social media. Yes, 18 and older. Effective immediately. We adults are having the wrong conversation about digital safety. Every week, more grave-faced politicians declare that we must protect kids by banning them from social media, even though most unhinged people online are...Read More
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a landmark lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging the company deliberately engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, marking the largest single settlement in the company’s history and the biggest tech-industry payout ever recorded in a single case. To put it...Read More
New York — Meta on Wednesday agreed to make sweeping changes to its platforms as part of an $18 billion settlement with dozens of states over claims its platforms contributed to a youth mental health crisis. Regulators and online safety advocates called it a watershed moment, and both Meta and state attorneys general called on TikTok...Read More
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook in a multistate settlement announced Wednesday by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Colorado will receive around $615 million over nine years for its part of the settlement, Weiser said. The money will go toward mental health and safety programs for...Read More
After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California’s blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the platforms. Witnesses at the blink-and-you-miss-it Oakland trial echoed much of what had already been heard this year by juries in Los Angeles,...Read More
After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California’s blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the platforms. Witnesses at the blink-and-you-miss-it Oakland trial echoed much of what had already been heard this year by juries in Los Angeles,...Read More
Arkansas is set to receive at least $172.4 million under a landmark settlement with Meta resolving litigation over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harmed and addicted children. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced Wednesday that he and 50 other attorneys general reached the proposed settlement with Meta, the parent company...Read More
