Meta agreed on August 26–29, 2026, to pay up to $18 billion over ten years and implement new safety restrictions on Facebook and Instagram for teenagers to resolve US state lawsuits alleging the company designed its platforms to be addictive to minors. The settlement marks one of the largest child-safety payouts in US history and includes screen-time limits and enhanced parental controls.
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Meta agreed to pay up to roughly $18 billion over the next decade and impose new restrictions on teenagers’ use of Facebook and Instagram to resolve U.S. state claims that it designed the platforms to addict children, misled the public about safety risks and improperly collected minors’ data [allsides.com#2][elpais.com#1][deccanchronicle.com#1][slashdot.org#1][theguardian.com#1]. The settlement en
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Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and change how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a proposed settlement with a bipartisan group of U.S. attorneys general. The states claimed the platforms were designed to encourage compulsive use by children and teenagers, harmed youth mental health, misled the public about safety risks and collected data from children under 13 wi
The company agreed to pay nearly $18 billion and pledged to impose new safety controls on Facebook and Instagram.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has agreed to pay up to $18bn and add safety measures and significant restrictions to Facebook and Instagram in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit yesterday. The social media giant, which was being sued by a coalition of 29 US states for knowingly harming young people with its products, will limit American under-18s to two hours a day, block access between midnight a
Meta agreed to pay up to about $18 billion over a decade and change how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram in the United States, settling lawsuits filed by U.S. states that accused the company of designing its platforms to encourage compulsive use, misleading the public about risks and unlawfully collecting data from children under 13; Meta denied wrongdoing [dawn.com#1][japantoday.com#1][abcnew
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion over a decade and change how users under 18 use Facebook and Instagram in the United States, settling state claims that it designed its platforms to encourage compulsive use by children, misled the public about safety risks and improperly collected data from children under 13 [abcnews.com#1][sowetan.co.za#1][dawn.com#1][theconversation.com#1]. Meta denied wrong
Meta agreed to pay up to roughly $18 billion over the next decade and change how teens use Facebook and Instagram to resolve U.S. state lawsuits alleging the company designed the platforms to addict children, misled the public about safety risks and improperly collected data from children under 13 [adaderana.lk#1][dawn.com#1][fortune.com#1][townlift.com#1]. The agreement ended a federal trial in O
The EU is pressing Meta to introduce the same protections for under-18s in Europe that it agreed to in a landmark US settlement, including screen-time limits and stronger parental controls on Facebook and Instagram. Brussels is also demanding additional measures.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, settled child-safety lawsuits on Wednesday with a bipartisan group of attorneys general, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion and add protections for young users [cbsnews.com#1][nytimes.com#1][techmeme.com#1]. The settlement resolved claims brought by 47 states and ended a federal trial that had started in Oakland, California; Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ap