Statement: Our Statement on the Dismissal of RKC JCCP Case [July 22, 2026]
“Days after settling with other social media companies, the plaintiff dropped his case against Meta, the only remaining defendant, without receiving any payment. The claims never held up, and this outcome makes clear that we will not back away from defending ourselves against baseless lawsuits.”
Statement: Our Statement on State AG’s Proposed Penalties in MDL [July 7, 2026]
“The plaintiffs’ outlandish calculations have no basis in fact or law. We’ll continue to defend ourselves against headline-seeking demands that are untethered from reality.”
Statement: Our Statement on the Court’s Denial of Parties’ Post-Trial Motions in the KGM JCCP Case
[June 10, 2026]
“While the bar for overturning a jury verdict is very high, we respectfully disagree with the Court’s ruling. The plaintiffs’ legal theory attempts to improperly circumvent Section 230 and the First Amendment, and we expect this ruling to be overturned on appeal. We stand firmly by our record and will continue to pursue all available appellate options.”
Statement: Our Statement on the Los Angeles JCCP Trial Verdict
[March 25, 2026]
“We respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal. Teen mental health is profoundly complex and cannot be linked to a single app. We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously as every case is different, and we remain confident in our record of protecting teens online.”
Statement: Our Statement on the New Mexico Trial Verdict
[March 24, 2026]
“We respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal. We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and are clear about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors or harmful content. We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously, and we remain confident in our record of protecting teens online.”
Statement: Our Statement on the Plaintiff’s Case in the Los Angeles JCCP Trial [March 6, 2026]
“Kaley has faced profound challenges, and we continue to recognize all she has endured. The jury’s only task, however, is to decide if those struggles would have existed without Instagram. Not one of her therapists identified social media as the cause. Her records show significant emotional and physical abuse, academic struggles and psychiatric conditions, entirely separate from her social media usage. The witnesses hired by her lawyer admitted that social media has benefitted Kaley, and she used it as an outlet to cope with the difficult circumstances at home. The evidence simply doesn’t support reducing a lifetime of hardship to a single factor, and our case will continue to underscore that reality.”
Statement: Our Statement on the Los Angeles JCCP Trial [February 11, 2026]
“The question for the jury in Los Angeles is whether Instagram was a substantial factor in the plaintiff’s mental health struggles. The evidence will show she faced many significant, difficult challenges well before she ever used social media.”
Statement: Our Response to Claims about 500k Daily Inappropriate Interactions with Children [Feb 9, 2026]
“The number discussed in this 2020 email exchange does not refer to individual victims or incidents of child exploitation. The measurement technology we used at the time used an overly wide and cautious set of criteria, and as a result counted many benign interactions. This number significantly reduced after we refined and improved our measurement technology. Since 2020, we’ve introduced a range of new measures to help reduce potential grooming and inappropriate interactions with children – including preventing adults from starting private chats with teens they’re not connected to, and using improved behavioral signals to identify potentially suspicious actors and preventing them from finding and following teens.”
Statement: Our Response to New Mexico AG’s Sensational Lawsuit [January 21, 2026]
“While New Mexico makes sensationalist, irrelevant and distracting arguments, we’re focused on demonstrating our longstanding commitment to supporting young people. For over a decade, we’ve listened to parents, worked with experts and law enforcement, and conducted in-depth research to understand the issues that matter most. We use these insights to make meaningful changes—like introducing Teen Accounts with built-in protections and providing parents with tools to manage their teens’ experiences. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made, and we’re always working to do better.” – Meta Spokesperson
Statement: Our Response to Plaintiffs’ Crime-Fraud Argument [January 21, 2026]
“As state and federal courts have now ruled, these were appropriate attorney-client discussions that are protected by attorney-client privilege. Our legal team partners with researchers to help ensure studies comply with the law and that research summaries are clear and accurate. Meta remains committed to transparent, industry-leading research, as demonstrated by the hundreds of youth-related studies we have approved since 2022.”
Statement: “Deactivation” Study [November 25, 2025]
“The plaintiffs’ lawyers have deliberately mischaracterized this study and have misled the public about its purpose and the findings. This research had nothing to do with teens, or Instagram, and it certainly doesn’t show any causal link between social media use and teen mental health. What it found was that people who already believed using Facebook was bad for them thought they felt better when they stopped using it. While these kinds of findings are common in other public deactivation studies, they are not particularly useful, which was the reason it didn’t go forward.”
Statement: Strike Policy on Sex Trafficking [November 25, 2025]
“We take a zero tolerance approach to human trafficking and exploitation, and we work to remove accounts immediately if they violate our most severe policies.”
