Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more

Meta Platforms (META.O) will pay up to $18 billion and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a sweeping agreement …

Reuters 2026-08-27

Context & Ripple Effects

The agreement closes a case that reached opening arguments in August, after four states had sought as much as $1.4 trillion in claimed damages and Meta rejected allegations that it designed its services to addict young users. It converts that litigation risk into a defined maximum payment and binding changes to teen access.

It also extends a record of consumer-protection settlements for Meta, including its $725 million Cambridge Analytica data-access settlement in 2022. The distinguishing feature here is that the resolution reaches beyond payment into how Facebook and Instagram serve teenagers.

First-order effects

Meta faces a payment of up to $18 billion and stricter limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram under the states' agreement.
State attorneys general obtain enforceable safeguards for underage users rather than relying solely on damages claims.

Second-order effects

The agreement establishes a concrete product-design benchmark for other social platforms serving teenagers, increasing pressure to show that their youth protections are effective rather than merely optional.
For Meta, teen engagement features and safety controls become a compliance matter alongside a consumer-protection liability issue.

Third-order effects

If state settlements continue to pair monetary penalties with mandated product constraints, platform governance will shift from disclosure-focused enforcement toward rules governing how youth-facing interfaces are designed.
The case strengthens the use of state consumer-protection actions to influence platform safety practices without a single federal standard.

The trend: US states are increasingly using consumer-protection litigation to turn youth-safety concerns into enforceable constraints on social-platform design.

Discussion

@mikeisaac Rat King on x
Meta is going full bore with pushing other companies to add the same restrictions it will add to its apps as a part of settlement: Meta plans to run this copy as a full page print advertisement in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the New York Times tomorrow morning
@rihardjarc Rihard Jarc on x
$META settled with the states for a maximum of $16.68B. Done. I still can't believe some people seriously believed the trillion-dollar numbers.
@jason_kint Jason Kint on x
wow. $16 BILLION means Meta/Facebook/Instagram is now approaching $25 BILLION they've on settlements related to consumer protection abuses... this one impacting an entire generation of children. Bookmarking the thread of the allegations they opted not to see to the end.
@rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
Interesting to see Meta settle for up to $17.1 billion (a little more than 1 percent of its market cap), which it mostly already recovered in trading today https://www.nytimes.com/...
@zephyrteachout Zephyr Teachout on x
Huge first step. Now we need to ban addictive feeds for kids altogether. This is a sign of big tech weakness, but they will want it all to go away. We need to push on the gas instead.
@adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x
I'm sure the Jonathan Haidt and Facebook Derangement Syndromd crowds will cheer this - and we have screen & social media limits on our own teen - but I really worry about where this is going. These jury trials over social media addiction are tough. I don't think an addiction
@rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
these numbers put $17.1 billion into perspective https://www.nytimes.com/...
@hshaban Hamza Shaban on x
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@charlottealter Charlotte Alter on x
Impossible to describe how HUGE this is. State AGs just pulled off what the federal government could never https://x.com/...
@jimcramer Jim Cramer on x
Meta goes negative: this is one hated stock.. i mean like despised. The big existential loss is off the table; the plaintiffs bar likely to fold.. This was a huge win. Shocked it doesn't matter
@enbrown Elizabeth Nolan Brown on x
Yeah, all I can say about the Meta settlement is ...ugh. This is only going to make AGs & other anti-SM zealots even more insufferable, b/c they'll say it proves they were right. And it will encourage more lawsuits that try to circumvent the 1st Amendment & Section 230 by claim…
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
This is what the government defending its residents looks like Make no mistake: NONE of this self-restraint is voluntary. It's after Meta lost a lawsuit to California (class action by 29 states) about platform child safety. If they don't do, they'll be regulated stricter
@madisonmills22 Madison Mills on x
Teens will automatically get two hour time limits, a chronological feed (!) and will be barred from using the app overnight. A lot of these features are things people of all ages, who are Bricking their phones or deleting then redownloading IG, clearly want as well. What are
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
I think this settlement is weak, but one positive is that libertarians are upset that Meta conceded their First Amendment claims are irrelevant.
@jonhaidt Jonathan Haidt on x
Meta's $16.7B settlement is the largest accountability moment in social media history for child safety, and the 47 AGs who drove it deserve tremendous credit. Restricted notifications and time limits are good, and it is historic that the AGs have gotten design changes. But the …
@andymstone Andy Stone on x
https://about.fb.com/...
@jimcramer Jim Cramer on x
It is important to note that when Meta doesn't react to something they will owe $1.3 Billion a year—drop in the bucket—instead of $100 billion a year—and it doesn't matter, that stock is considered odious
@headinthebox Erik Meijer on x
Because the settlement is spread out over 10 years, Meta will only pay roughly $1.17 billion per year for the unconditional portion. In contrast, Reality Labs burns through that exact same amount of cash every 24 days. Thank you for the perspective @headinthebox.
@borrowed_ideas @borrowed_ideas on x
@TSOH_Investing very happy to see Meta putting this in the deal because that's exactly what I was getting at why Meta cannot solve this alone.
@mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x
Operation: Pay billions so as not to have to pay trillions seemingly a success. Also, right before you-know-who was set to testify...
@charlottealter Charlotte Alter on x
Looks like using the Big Tobacco playbook against Big Tech is absolutely working. Meta once claimed *oh no, we're only a teeny weeny omniscient tech corporation with unlimited data about our users, how could we possibly know who's a child on our platform? * Now they've been for…
@jerrycap @jerrycap on x
Looks like $META wasn't down on the lawsuit news. Its was only down because it's the worst stock ever.
@gerritd Gerrit De Vynck on x
lot of people dismissing the $18B Meta payout as a drop in the bucket. Sure. But the platform changes are significant. Meta has been fighting calls for exactly this kind of thing for a decade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
that said, years after everyone forgot about what was then considered a landmark FTC settlement in 2019, FB started cutting its risk and privacy monitoring teams when AI came around as an existential threat.... https://www.nytimes.com/...
@oablanchard Olivier Blanchard on x
The alternative was $1.4T if @Meta lost in court. Meta was smart to blink. For reference, Meta's revenue in Q2 2026 was $60.8B, so while these state attorneys general pat themselves on the back, this $17.1B settlement is little more than a slap on the wrist.
@balancecrafting @balancecrafting on x
A few points re Meta settlement 1) Settlement expires after 10 years. Night access mode & daily limits for teens last 5 years Lawmakers still need to act to make any of this permanent 2) Meta is not released from criminal liability, only civil 3) Florida is going to trial
@willguyatt Will Guyatt on x
Meta's settlement is the latest piece of 9D chess. It denies wrong doing and potentially dodges a costly bullet. https://www.bbc.com/...
@adrianweckler Adrian Weckler on x
Meta today fined $ 16.7bn by US courts for the same stuff EU regulates them for. Where's the outrage? Vance? Tech bros? Anyone? https://www.reuters.com/...
@quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
Well yeah, can't give $16B away all at once like you're blowing it on the metaverse or anything.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
meta gets off easy
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
The fundamental flaw here is this settlement doesn't touch advertising. You can put all the limits you want in a legal document, but if Meta makes money from kids using their product, Meta is going to find ways of getting kids to use their product.
@_zeets Zito on x
I know 16 billion is nothing to them but it's wild when that's the settlement. Meta should have been ended a long time ago, instead of allowing them to keep paying affordable fines for wrecking the world and people's minds.
@jonathanturley Jonathan Turley on x
The Meta settlement is certainly seismic and will lead to new protections for children. In the end, the $16 billion is a bit like monopoly money — perhaps literally so for critics. Meta made over $200 billion in profits and, more importantly, this can be written off a cost of
@douglaslfarrar Douglas Farrar on x
The States got $17.1 billion from Meta, while the Trump-Vance DOJ got a paltry $400 million and ended fed oversight of TikTok for a similarly egregious set of violations of kids' privacy. The Trump Administration is fine letting social media run wild on your children.
@nicoperrino Nico Perrino on x
This settlement — and the litigation that led to it — was effectively a backdoor effort by the government to mandate age verification. It succeeded. Now Meta is pressuring TikTok and YouTube to voluntarily adopt the same requirements and restrictions found in its settlement. I…
@jason_kint Jason Kint on x
lol. Also trying to make it as if they weren't the worst actor that was the focus of the complaints and the one fighting legislation to regulate them. Meta PR 101 - always be on offense.
@ddayen David Dayen on x
Meta is in the midst of a trial for addicting children to its websites. It could cost them $200 billion (or even $1.4 *trillion* by some accounts). It could be the end of social media as we know it, and Ryan Cooper feels fine: https://prospect.org/...
@thierrybreton Thierry Breton on x
$17 billion💰 That's what it took for US states to force Meta to protect children online. Ironically, 9 measures out of 12 are covered by the DSA, our 🇪🇺 law since 2023. US courts are going faster than the EU Commission. We must ENFORCE DSA NOW! https://www.nytimes.com/...
@stocksavvyshay Shay Boloor on x
$META agreeing to pay ~$16.7B to settle child safety and privacy claims sounds enormous until you put it against the earnings machine. Meta is expected to generate ~$340M in profit per day by 2028 which means the entire settlement equals about 49 days of profit.
@m_ccuri Maria Curi on x
The bottom line: It's taken whistleblowers, combative hearings, years of debate on Capitol Hill, and many lawsuits for Meta to inch toward accepting some form of federal regulation. As scrutiny heats up via litigation, the company is now attempting to position itself as being on
@munster_gene Gene Munster on x
$META is up 3% (Nasdaq is down 0.1%) on the news of the national tech addiction settlement which underscores investors value clarity, even if the news is bad. The company will pay $18B over the next 10 years. Last week, I had estimated the number would be below $25B, so these p…
@andrewyang Andrew Yang on x
Meta is getting off easy on this one. What price would you put on your kid's mental health?
David Rendelstein David Rendelstein on linkedin
This is not surprising and it feels precedential. We are likely to see these types of settlements become commonplace with the mega tech AI companies. …
Kate O'Loughlin Kate O'Loughlin on linkedin
$17 BILLION in fines and the stock price goes up 🤯 but at least the settlement... 1) Requires META to improve youth experiences …
Kerry Edelstein Kerry Edelstein on linkedin
ICYMI, we should all have eyes on this ruling. Some considerations that immediately come to mind: — 1. How will other social media platforms pre-emptively respond? …
@parismarx.com Paris Marx on bluesky
hard not to think of the social media restrictions china put on kids and how the west is slowly doing the same, just in the most convoluted way possible [embedded post]
@mattmcneilshow Matt McNeil Show on bluesky
The fact that they agreed to this much of a payout tells you how guilty they were of poisoning kids' minds. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/m...
@dems.ag @dems.ag on bluesky
Dem AGs just secured a HUGE public health win for kids and young people across the country. — This is just the beginning - Dem AGs will continue to protect youth mental health and take on those accused of endangering them. — www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
@sltrib.com @sltrib.com on bluesky
CNBC does a good job of breaking it down in this article but the short version is that “participating states” are splitting $12.2 billion, and Meta will only pay the remaining ~$3B if Google also agrees to implement the same changes.
@liccardo.house.gov Rep. Sam Liccardo on bluesky
This settlement has done what Congress has failed to do: impose social media safeguards for children and teens. Now Congress must extend those protections across the industry by passing the Kids Online Safety Act. — www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
@pamspaulding Pam Spaulding on bluesky
1/2 — 🚨 $16.7B. A pittance. States should have taken this to a verdict. The precedent would have been a win *for humanity*. — Meta — FB & IG — its products are addictive & detrimental to mental health. Zuck & Co. knew. — 👉Each party waived “all rights to appeal this Fin…
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BBC: “It shouldn't have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says”
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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
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BBC: “It shouldn't have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says”
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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
@newjerseyoag Attorney General Jennifer Davenport on x
Today we are announcing a landmark victory for parents and young people everywhere. We took on Meta and, subject to court approval, they've agreed to our demands. This is the era of holding Big Tech accountable.
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
the Meta settlement money figure is a rounding error compared to Meta's annual capex on AI — especially when it's amortized over the next *ten years* but these required product changes could actually significant if they are enforced, not easily bypassed by kids
@paattorneygen @paattorneygen on x
Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Pennsylvania, as part of a multistate coalition, has reached a settlement with Meta that assures the social media company will implement sweeping changes to existing age assurance framework, limit children's time on their platforms, and…
@benjamingoggin Ben Goggin on x
The scale of Meta's settlement with states is bigger than just the case in California. Meta says it came to agreements with 52 AGs for up to $18 billion, meaning other cases will be killed by this, and states outside the suit have hopped on. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
@alexsjacquez Alex Jacquez on x
Extending these to >18 would genuinely save the Republic
@bwaltens Brandon Waltens on x
BREAKING: @KenPaxtonTX has secured a settlement worth more than $1 BILLION from Meta over protections for children. Meta will be required to impose stricter age verification, a two-hour daily limit for teens, school-hour notification restrictions, and a nighttime access mode.
@kenpaxtontx Attorney General Ken Paxton on x
🚨BREAKING NEWS: I just secured over $1 billion for Texas from Meta in a historic settlement to protect kids online.
@metanewsroom @metanewsroom on x
Today marks an historic agreement between Meta and 52 Attorneys General that provides sweeping new protections empowering parents and setting the standard for the industry. https://about.fb.com/...
@scattygenoffice @scattygenoffice on x
Attorney General Alan Wilson announces largest Big Tech settlement in history.
@agalanwilson Alan Wilson on x
As a dad to two teenagers who've grown up in the digital age, protecting children from Big Tech is personal to me. This settlement with Meta doesn't undo the damage that has been caused, but it's a strong step in preventing the harms caused by social media to future generations
@agchanaway @agchanaway on x
BREAKING: Missouri stood with states across the country demanding accountability from Big Tech for the addictive and harmful features targeting our kids. Now, Meta is rolling out historic safety reforms on Facebook and Instagram nationwide. Every minor should be safe the moment
@nicholasabrown_ Nicholas Brown on x
META: “.. we urge TikTok and YouTube to join us and state attorneys general in adopting this new standard, to ensure teens use social media in a healthy and responsible way.” (h/t @carlquintanilla) $META https://about.fb.com/...
@edludlow Ed Ludlow on x
Meta has agreed to some major operational changes for teen users as part of its $16.7B settlement with states: • 2-hour daily cap across Facebook + Instagram • Midnight-6am lockout; notifications off 10pm-7am • School hours: most notifications off 8am-3pm • Mandatory breaks a…
@cecianasta Cecilia D'Anastasio on x
As part of its $17 billion multistate settlement, Meta is letting teens opt out of the algorithmic feed...... https://about.fb.com/...
@zerohedge @zerohedge on x
*META TO ACCRUE ABOUT $10B LEGAL EXPENSE IN 3Q FOR SETTLEMENT
@rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
six days later
@ezcontra @ezcontra on x
why is meta always at the center of these cases? If the concern is social media's effect on kids, its weird that google/youtube and tiktok don't get the same level of scrutiny. And the role of parents never seems to come up at all
@newyorkstateag Ny Ag on x
For years, our kids have suffered from anxiety and depression while @Meta reaped immense profits by addicting them to social media. Now, my office and a bipartisan coalition secured up to $17.1 billion from @Meta along with groundbreaking reforms to help protect our kids online.
@oknox Olivier Knox on x
Meta putting the bravest face on its “we know we said we had done everything possible to protect teens but now we have magically unlocked a whole bunch of other things we can do” settlement.
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
notably, snap not mentioned, so you really can see who meta sees as its peers/competitors
@hshaban Hamza Shaban on x
Here's how Meta's settlement deal is supposed to incentivize TikTok and YouTube to also change their rules to better protect children:
@agjamesuthmeier @agjamesuthmeier on x
We rejected Meta's weak payoff attempt. Meta knows about the damage they caused, and we will hold them accountable in Florida.
@stocksavvyshay Shay Boloor on x
$META is tying another $5.3B of its settlement to $GOOGL YouTube and TikTok adopting similar teen safety rules. If they join Meta would cut its default teen time limit from 2 hours to 1 hour a day effectively turning the settlement into an industry-wide push.
@michaelscherer Michael Scherer on x
After running a massive ad campaign to assure parents that “teen accounts” will protect their kids, Meta announces, under threat of massive jury verdict, that there is a lot more they can do to protect their kids.
Nicole Mezzasalma Nicole Mezzasalma on linkedin
In a move few people (I think!) saw coming, Meta has agreed a settlement in that massive lawsuit in the US, which includes a huge payment and feature changes. …
@damonberes.com Damon Beres on bluesky
Also great from @masnick.com: “We just spent three years teaching the entire industry that if you do research on child safety, you'll have it held against you. Do we really think that all of this is going to actually enable anyone to figure out what works to help actual kids?”
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Meta reaches $18 billion settlement over teen social media addiction
@carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on x
The $META settlement already ricochets in state budget forecasts.
@will_doran Will Doran on x
BREAKING: Meta is paying billions of dollars this morning to settle a lawsuit with states that sued over social media addiction, including North Carolina, which will receive nearly $700 million #ncpol
@maustermuhle Martin Austermuhle on x
NEWS: D.C. could receive as much as $129 million from Meta as part of a national settlement over litigation related to the impact of Facebook and Instagram on kids. The settlement will also require Meta to put new limits on their apps for kids, to include a cap on daily use, etc.
Bill George Bill George on linkedin
Meta will pay an $18 billion fine for its failure to ensure children who use its Facebook site are safe. — Why did Meta wait until it got sued by 48 states? …
Jonathan Burns Jonathan Burns on linkedin
When I first joined government, I was optimistic that it was a good opportunity to help the public. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd have the chance to do such impactful work. …
Kelly Stonelake Kelly Stonelake on linkedin
This morning, Meta announced a landmark settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories where they will pay up to $18 billion …
Robin Feldman Robin Feldman on linkedin
For a decade, social media companies have successfully argued that the algorithm's choice of what to show users was the same as a newspaper editor's choice of what articles to run. …
Hugh Shepherd Hugh Shepherd on linkedin
Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and introduce further protections for young users to settle a major US case brought by states alleging …
@usrepkathycastor U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor on bluesky
I'm glad to see Big Tech be held accountable for their predatory designs and careless approach to keeping kids safe online. 👏🏼 This is a step in the right direction, but it's never been more important for Congress to step up and pass a design code law that establishes guardrails…
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Meta reaches landmark $18 billion settlement with states in trial over teen social media addiction
@frankluntz Frank Luntz on x
Should this be Meta's responsibility or parents' responsibility?
@p_remarks @p_remarks on x
“Parent approval required to remove either restriction” If you've met the average parent just know the net effect of these protections will be zero
r/UpliftingNews r on reddit
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
@jason_kint Jason Kint on x
whoa. there is almost $500 million buried in the 130 page Meta settlement to pay off states on Cambridge Analytica. Note, District of Columbia not listed where Zuckerberg personally has a suit, along with company, related to the ongoing legal reckoning from the cover-up. /1
@garyblack00 Gary Black on x
$META +4% pre-mkt to $594 on reports that it has reached a $17B settlement over 10 years with the state attorneys general, thereby removing the chance of an existential adverse verdict that could have approached $1.4 trillion, equal to META's market cap. While we had always
@geiger_capital @geiger_capital on x
Right on schedule... Zuckerberg is one of our modern “Titans”. He's given us instagram reels and funded far-left groups facilitating mass immigration. A net negative to American society.
@prospect.org @prospect.org on bluesky
Meta is back in court. This time, the plaintiffs are 28 states, led by California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, which allege that the company deliberately designed their products to get young people addicted, and harmed their mental health as a result. buff.ly/m4h7lc8
@p_remarks @p_remarks on x
If this was high school tiktok and YouTube would be beating up meta behind the bleachers at 4pm today
@francisbrennan Francis Brennan on x
We just reached a bipartisan agreement with 52 attorneys general on new teen safety standards: default time limits, night blocks, muted notifications during school hours, and stronger parental controls. More here: https://about.fb.com/...
@michaelscherer Michael Scherer on x
The ball is now in YouTube and TikTok's court. Will they follow?
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
The Meta settlement is about social media. But the ripples will go beyond Snap, TikTok, YouTube, etc. This will become a new legal template for AI chatbots.
@marcimccue Marci McCue on bluesky
“Age assurance is a privacy nightmare. Enshrining it as the industry standard means the end of meaningful online anonymity, and it “forces” Meta to collect more data about all of us — including adults — while handing the states a pipeline to that data for whatever else they deci…
@masnick.com Mike Masnick on bluesky
In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's “settlement” that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have. [embedded post]
@caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky
Wrote about Meta's ludicrous effort to position itself as a leader in child safety after today's $17 billion settlement with state AGs www.platformer.news/meta-child- s... [image]
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Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial
@parismarx.com Paris Marx on bluesky
Not gonna lie, this feels like a pretty significant development. — Meta will “restrict teenagers' use of Facebook and Instagram to two hours a day and block all usage from midnight to 6 a.m.” — It will also “disable most push notifications to teenage users during school hours…
r/news r on reddit
Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction
@dangillmor@mastodon.social Dan Gillmor on mastodon
Governments want nothing more than to control what people say and read and hear online, and corporate monopolists are their natural allies. So the “kid safety settlement” by Facebook and states is going to be disastrous for everyone who cares about free speech. https://www.techd…
r/technology r on reddit
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
@socialmedialab.ca @socialmedialab.ca on bluesky
“The limitations that are in the (Meta) agreement are the equivalent of saying: ‘Well you can smoke as many cigarettes as you can in two hours a day,’” said whistleblower and ex-Facebook employee Arturo Béjar. “It doesn't make the cigarettes any safer.” www.theguardian.com/techn…
@thierrybreton Thierry Breton on x
Meta to pay a mega $17 billion settlement to 47 US States — to enforce measures already covered by the 🇪🇺 DSA. Which got me a US visa ban, as the DSA “mastermind.
Dex Hunter-Torricke Dex Hunter-Torricke on linkedin
My comment for media: Meta just settled the lawsuit brought against it by dozens of US state attorneys general, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion over claims that its products harmed children. …
John Battelle John Battelle on linkedin
Meta “capitulated” and settled with 47 states on child endangerment, according to the NYT. But what I can't quite determine from coverage …
@keithellison @keithellison on bluesky
Big Tech is not above the law and our kids are not products. — Today, I and a bipartisan coalition of Attorneys General secured a landmark settlement with Meta worth up to $17.1 billion, along with sweeping new protections for kids and teens on Instagram and Facebook.
@lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky
Meta's 2025 net income was $60.46 billion. The tentative settlement agreement amount is ~27% of that & might sting depending how quickly the company must pay. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/m... Big q's remains on the agreed on design changes - will they actually be helpful to child (o…
@ddayen David Dayen on bluesky
Meta is in the midst of a trial for addicting children to its websites. It could cost them $200 billion (or even $1.4 *trillion* by some accounts). It could be the end of social media as we know it, and @ryanlcooper.com feels fine: “Social media... is a gravely toxic institutio…
@kimberlyeatkins Kimberly Atkins Stohr on bluesky
Meta's current market cap is $1.45 TRILLION. $12.6 billion is a drop in the bucket. A rounding error. Outrageous. — www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/m...
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