Meta fined $567 million in largest child safety ruling against social media giant A New Mexico state court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million and overhaul safety features for young users after finding the social media company responsible for harming children’s mental health. The ruling marks one of the largest legal actions against a...Read More
Social media giant Meta has been ordered to pay another $AUD807m for its lack of warnings for the public about the dangers its platforms posed to children. It’s the biggest ruling against the company over child safety. The BBC reports that Judge Bryan Biedscheid decided Meta is a “public nuisance” akin to air pollution, and...Read More
A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567 million over its failure to warn the public about the dangers its platforms posed to children. A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567 million over its failure to warn the public about the dangers...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
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
NEW MEXICO: A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million (about £421 million) for failing to adequately warn the public about the risks its platforms pose to children, marking the largest child-safety ruling against the social media company to date. In a decision, Judge Bryan Biedscheid described Meta as...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
“Just as noxious pollution produced by the factory can harm the common public right to reasonably clean air, the harmful effects of Meta’s platforms on children do not stay contained by its platforms and, instead, migrate to the internet as a whole and, perhaps most concerning, to the real world and create a common, societal...Read More
Last year, 1142 women and children were recorded as victims of assault in communities across Cape York. Photo: Unsplash/Zohre Nemati. Indigenous thinktank the Cape York Institute says more needs to be done to address horrific rates of alcohol-fuelled violence on the peninsula and has called on the State Government to do more to enforce parental...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
