Everything that will change on Instagram and Facebook after bombshell court settlement

Other sites such as YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat could be required to introduce similarly dramatic changes

Meta agreed to set more time limits and enhance protections in its platforms for young users, but was short on some specifics.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday.

Within six months, teenage accounts would by default be locked out of Facebook and Instagram from midnight to 6:00 am local time.

Meta agrees to a multibillion-dollar settlement requiring new limits, nighttime blocks and parental controls for teen Facebook and Instagram users.

The tech giant is also calling on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the same policies.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. Illinios, California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 28 state

California’s Attorney General said the settlement will ‘make social media less dangerous for our kids and make a world of a difference for children and their families’.

Meta did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The US$17 billion settlement is a fraction of the company's 2025 revenue of US$201 billion.

The tech giant has agreed to add child safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in the settlement, ending a landmark trial in the US.

The tech giant has agreed to add child safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in the settlement, ending a landmark trial in the US.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday.

Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction  AP News

California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 29 US states that sued the tech giant in 2023.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states

US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on nighttime use Meta agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps in a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit on Wednesday. Dozens of US states had accused the tech giant of addicting and harming

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up wi

A loss at trial could expose Meta to penalties of as much as $1.4 trillion, while a settlement would likely be far smaller

Meta is on trial over claims it hooked young users on its platforms despite mental health risks.

A landmark trial which accuses tech giant Meta of harming children through addictive social media products is underway in Oakland. Kenny Choi has the details.