Meta to Pay Historic $25 Billion in New Mexico Deception Case October 21, 2026 By Isaiah Poritz Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay a groundbreaking $25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in...
Portuguese Group D3 Sues Meta, TikTok And YouTube Over Addictive Design September 11, 2026 By Sergio Goncalves Portuguese digital rights group D3 has filed lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, accusing them of designing features in...
Meta Settlement Opens New Front in Global Fight Over Social Media Harm August 28, 2026 By Byron Kaye, Karen Lema and Toby Sterling Meta’s move to restrict teenagers’ use of social media in the U.S. shows companies have tools to better protect young...
Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $16.7 Billion in Social Media Case August 26, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a landmark social media case with multiple...
Teen Drops Lawsuit Against Meta, Google and Snap Ahead of Trial August 21, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones A teen girl whose lawsuit was a test case in litigation accusing social media companies of deliberately addicting young people...
Zuckerberg Encouraged Growth Over Child Safety, Ex-Meta Executive Testifies at Trial August 20, 2026 By Kenrick Cai, Diana Novak Jones and Jonathan Stempel A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child...
Meta Rejects Claims It Sought to Hook Kids to Facebook, Instagram as Key Trial Begins August 19, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones and Jonathan Stempel Meta Platforms rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms...
Meta, 29 States Head to Court in Biggest Test Yet of Youth Social Media Litigation August 12, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over...
Appeals Court Allows Thousands of Social Media Suits Over User Addiction Claims to Proceed August 10, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok,...
Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million In New Mexico for Teen Mental Health Fund August 7, 2026 By Andrew Hay, Dietrich Knauth and Diana Novak Jones A New Mexico state court ordered Meta on Thursday to pay $567 million into a teen mental health fund and...