A former senior executive at PGIM and longtime real estate executive was arrested as part of a sting operation involving minors in San Francisco. Photo credit: Unsplash/Daniel von Appen Reuben Teague, 50, was one of five men arrested in the undercover operation conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with other U.S. law...Read More
Children and families in Cleburne County will soon have access to specialized child advocacy services without traveling outside their community. The Child Safety Center has announced plans to open a new office inside Heber Springs City Hall this fall. The expansion is designed to improve access to trauma-informed care while strengthening the local response to...Read More
Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe has been slammed for maintaining a close relationship with Elon Musk while holding shares in an online child safety business. Far-right tech billionaire Musk, the richest person in the world, owns the social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), which has been used to produce sexually explicit images of...Read More
Weeks after NDTV’s investigation exposed sexually suggestive videos involving minors, AI-generated exploitative content, coded hashtags and captions, and networks directing users to Telegram channels, Meta has acknowledged limitations, saying that its current automated enforcement systems ‘often rely on straightforward patterns’ and ‘aren’t as good at capturing nuance’. The tech giant disclosed that it is developing...Read More
A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for endangering children by...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
SANTA FE, N.M. (TNND) — A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million and implement changes to protect children on Facebook and Instagram. Judge Bryan Biedcheid said the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used for treatment services for young people, while the rest will go...Read More
By Nana Karikari, Senior Global Affairs Correspondent A New Mexico state judge has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million—approximately 6.67 billion Ghana cedis—for failing to warn the public about the dangers its platforms pose to children. This decision marks the largest fine ever levied against the social media giant over child safety violations....Read More
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) slipped 0.21% intraday after a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay an additional $567 million and strengthen child-safety features on its apps. The order brings total penalties in the case to $942 million, following a $375 million jury award in March. The muted stock...Read More
Meta was ordered to pay $567 million into an abatement fund in New Mexico as part of a public nuisance case that’s just one of many suits the company faces related to alleged harms caused by its apps. The fund comes on top of the $375 million in civil penalties that Meta was forced to...Read More
