Meta’s mega settlement could change social media UX as we know it

Meta has agreed to a settlement worth $16.7 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia, and multiple U.S. territories, and it could change social media as we know it.  The settlement agreement, which was filed on August 26 in the U.S. Northern District of California in Oakland, comes days into a landmark social media trial that put Meta head-to-head with a coalition of state attorneys general who alleged that the tech giant was purposefully designing its social media sites to result in…