Map: Here's How Much Each State Will Receive in Meta Settlement
The agreement requires Meta to add time limits, nighttime blocks and stronger safeguards for children and teens on Instagram and Facebook.
- On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Department of Justice announced a $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, resolving allegations the company designed Instagram and Facebook to harm children, with Wisconsin receiving up to $313 million.
- Attorneys general from 47 states sued Meta following a bipartisan investigation that alleged the company designed Instagram to addict children while internally documenting mental health harms and misleading the public.
- Meta must implement "nighttime blocks" from midnight to 6 a.m., enforce a two-hour daily time limit across both apps, and disable beauty filters for users aged 13 to 17.
- Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul stated at least 50 percent of the state's payout must fund youth mental health, including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and digital literacy programs.
- Contingency payments totaling more than $5 billion depend on whether Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube adopt comparable safety rules, potentially reducing daily usage limits to 60 minutes industry-wide.
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Map: Here's how much each state will receive in Meta settlement
Fifty-one states and territories will receive payments from the settlement, ranging from $1.1 million to $1.5 billion.
Wisconsin to get more than $200M from settlement with Meta
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Meta to pay New York up to $1 billion of potential $17 billion social media addiction settlement
The New York Attorney General’s office was one of the prosecutors in 47 states that reached a whopping settlement of up to $17.1 billion with Meta over the platform's damage to youth mental health — with around $1 billion going to New York. The agreement put an end to a landmark multi-state lawsuit from 2023 that accused the company that operates Instagram and Facebook of fomenting a mental health crisis in young people through a financial model…
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