Today’s ESG Updates Meta Agrees $18bn Child Safety Settlement: Nearly all U.S. states will receive payments over the next decade, while Meta introduces tighter limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram. U.S. Secures Partial Control of Venezuelan Oil Reserves: Trump says the deal covers more than 65 billion barrels of proven reserves and aims...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, August 26, 2026Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov919-538-2809 Instagram and Facebook to Make Major Child Safety Upgrades RALEIGH – Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, will pay up to $645 million, with a guaranteed minimum of $451 million, to North Carolina and make major child safety upgrades to its apps in a landmark settlement with Attorney...Read More
Ohio stands to receive more than $319 million over the next decade as part of a $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The proposed agreement also requires Meta to implement new safety measures for children and teens, including time limits and expanded parental controls on Facebook and Instagram....Read More
Updated August 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM EDT Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day. The social media company Meta and states suing it have agreed to settle a landmark federal child safety lawsuit in a move that state attorneys general hope will be a...Read More
Current risks regarding child safety online This section provides an overview of the risks and challenges affecting children and young people (11-17 years old) in the digital environment in Ukraine. Overall Landscape of Risks The most prevalent online risks for children in Ukraine include cyberbullying, exposure to harmful content, contact with strangers, online grooming, psychological...Read More
Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced a landmark multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta). It is the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside of the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The District will receive at least $90,395,940 and up to $129,356,762 to resolve the lawsuit the Office of the Attorney...Read More
Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day OAKLAND, Calif. – The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, said in court on Tuesday that a feature introduced in 2021 to try to help teens regulate their time on the app had lower uptake than he had hoped...Read More
New Delhi: Meta’s landmark settlement with a coalition of US states puts age assurance at the centre of the company’s latest child-safety measures, with under-18 users on Facebook and Instagram set to face default limits on screen time, night-time access and notifications. The deal, approved by a judge, requires a two-hour daily limit, a midnight to...Read More
Updated August 26, 2026 at 11:26 AM HST Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day. The social media company Meta and states suing it have agreed to settle a landmark federal child safety lawsuit in a move that state attorneys general hope will be a...Read More
Updated August 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM EDT Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day. The social media company Meta and states suing it have agreed to settle a landmark federal child safety lawsuit in a move that state attorneys general hope will be a...Read More
