What Meta’s $17-Billion Settlement Revealed About the Harms of Social Media
- Early last month, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a $567 million penalty for the addiction and mental health issues its Facebook and Instagram platforms caused teens.
- Meta reached a $17 billion settlement with 47 attorneys general and the District of Columbia who sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products.
- Some $420 million of the penalty is directed toward "treatment services," but the Center for Teen Flourishing argues therapy is not the best way to address these harms.
- A Meta official told reporters that "we didn't get there this Congress" with the Kids Online Safety Act but the current deal is designed to lead the company to the same place.
- Joann Bogard, a founding member of ParentsSOS, urges Zuckerberg to stop lobbying against KOSA and share support with President Donald Trump and Congress to establish lasting industry-wide protections.
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Meta, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg and owner of Facebook and Instagram, has reached an agreement to pay up to $18 billion over the next 10 years. The agreement puts an end to the lawsuits filed by prosecutors general of several US states, which accused the company of designing their social networks to generate addiction among children and adolescents and keep them hooked to their platforms through their algorithms. Meta, without recognizin…
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In a historic settlement with 47 states, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties to resolve claims that it designed its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, to foster harmful addiction among minors.
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I would love to think that Mark Zuckerberg saw the light. Meta, Zuckerberg’s massive tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 state attorneys general who had sued the company for deliberately addicting children to its products. In addition to the financial penalties, Meta agreed to implement features […]
Meta will pay compensation of $17 billion in the US There are good reasons to be skeptical about the impact that the latest legal agreement of Meta will have on the technology giant. The company has already survived scandals, hearings in Congress and regulatory fines without great lasting damage. An agreement approved by the court worth up to $18 billion seems huge, but the Meta can deal with it: the value is equivalent to about 8.5% of the comp…
The news that Meta (the matrix that brings together Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) agreed, in exchange for a payment of up to $17 billion, to put an end to the lawsuits filed by a bipartisan coalition of 51 U.S. Attorneys General, who accused her of deliberately designing addictive platforms for minors, had a different impact ... Continue reading "Metal Agreement by addictive design, security and Sernac criteria to initiate collective lawsuit…
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