Alaska is set to receive up to $23 million from Meta Platforms Inc. under a landmark $17 billion settlement agreement that would also require the company to implement a sweeping set of safety features for its social media platforms, aimed at protecting children from addictive features and harmful content. The multistate settlement agreement was announced...Read More

RALEIGH — Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has agreed to pay North Carolina at least $451 million and potentially as much as $645 million as part of a multistate settlement over allegations that the company harmed children through its social media platforms. The settlement, reached by Attorney General Jeff Jackson and attorneys...Read More

Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) ordered Discord to suspend livestreams earlier this month after a 13-year-old girl was goaded into killing herself during a livestream. A government statement said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the capital, Brasilia, was brought after failed negotiations with Discord, whose proposals were “deemed insufficient to eliminate the identified risks.”...Read More

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier explains the state’s decision to take Meta to trial over child safety claims rather than join a multistate settlement on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the state’s decision to take Meta to trial over allegations the company failed to protect children on its...Read More

Not a subscriber? Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Exclusive: The conservative family advocacy group American Principles Project and other children’s safety advocates are raising alarm over a new Senate bill. The advocates argue that the bill relaxes age-verification requirements and includes an advertising carveout for Google. In a landmark settlement,...Read More

Béjar claimed Meta ignored warnings about harmful content. It echoed similar claims by Frances Haugen, a disillusioned former engineer, that not only scuppered Meta’s plans for a kids version of Instagram, but inspired Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, and a group of other US attorneys to pursue Meta this time around. Béjar also alleged Meta...Read More

New Hampshire will receive up to $224 million as part of agreement resolving lawsuits that claimed tech-giant Meta intentionally designed its products to addict young users and misrepresented the safety risks their social media platforms posed. New Hampshire’s payout is part of a more than $17 billion multi-state deal, which includes 47 other states, Washington...Read More

This week, news broke that Meta had settled with 47 state attorneys general who jointly sued it for knowingly addicting kids to its platforms. The agreement sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, and among those working on technology and child safety across the nation.  Those who were too far out of the range of the...Read More

Roblox and Meta have agreed to strengthen child-safety protections for users in the Philippines, including age verification, parental controls and faster removal of harmful content, as the country weighs tougher rules governing minors’ access to digital platforms. The commitments were made during face-to-face meetings between Philippine officials and executives from both companies in Singapore, according...Read More

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, agreed to pay up to $17 billion to settle claims with nearly every state in the country. Texas struck its own deal worth more than $1 billion, bringing Meta’s potential payout to roughly $18 billion. But the bigger impact may not be the money, but what happens to...Read More