Meta and US States Discuss Settlement in Landmark Social Media Trial: Report
The talks come as 29 states seek about $200 billion in penalties and product changes over claims Meta misused children’s data.
- Meta Platforms Inc. and a coalition of 29 states are engaged in discussions regarding a potential mid-trial settlement to resolve allegations that Facebook and Instagram are deliberately designed to hook teenage users.
- The high-stakes trial, which opened this month in Oakland, features testimony from Instagram head Adam Mosseri regarding claims the company knowingly fueled a youth mental health crisis while misleading consumers about platform safety.
- Beyond addiction claims, the lawsuit alleges Meta violated the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data from children under 13 without consent, raising implications for how companies train generative AI models.
- While the four leading trial states seek roughly $200 billion, Meta has noted states could demand up to $1.4 trillion; any deal faces complications given varying political calculations across 29 attorneys general.
- Separately, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a potential settlement with an unnamed technology company, while Meta aims to stop the public release of internal documents that could emerge during continued litigation.
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The Facebook and Instagram apps are supposed to be designed to make them addictive. After Instagram boss Adam Mosseri was on the stand, there was supposed to have been initial talks for an out-of-court settlement.
Possible agreement in the federal lawsuit for dependence on Facebook and Instagram
Meta and US states discuss settlement in landmark social media trial: report
With more than three billion users around the world, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of 29 states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public. The states are claiming that Meta violated both state-level and federal laws, though the exact allegations vary by state. If Meta loses the case, the states could ask for around $200 billion in penalties, in addition to forci…
Meta and the states are talking settlement while the jury is still sitting
Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg. The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the company and four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial that opened this […] This story continues at The Next Web
Watch Meta and State Attorneys Discuss Possible Mid-Trial Settlement in Landmark Teen Addiction Case
Meta and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the landmark case in which the company is accused of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict teens, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg's Balazs Penz explains.
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