Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1 billion in ‘largest’ Big Tech accountability settlement

Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and make sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle allegations that it designed its platforms to addict children while misleading the public about their risks. The proposed agreement resolves claims by 51 states and territories, including a federal case involving 29

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

The tech giant agreed one of the largest consumer protection settlements in US history, ending a trial that could have put Zuckerberg on the stand.

Meta has also agreed to a long list of new safeguards that will significantly change how young people use its apps, including a nighttime block and a two-hour limit across all of Meta's platforms.

Meta has also agreed to a long list of new safeguards that will significantly change how young people use its apps, including a nighttime block and a two-hour limit across all of Meta's platforms.

Meta Agrees To $16.68 Billion Settlement In Social Media Addiction Trial  Forbes

The social media giant also agreed to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion as part of a historic settlement with 29 state attorneys general who alleged the company purposely built Instagram and Facebook to addict kids.

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

Meta agreed to settle with U.S. states in a landmark lawsuit over allegations Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harm children. The big picture: The company agreed to provide compensation to the states for a variety of public health purposes, including crisis intervention services, after-school programs,

Meta and state attorneys general have discussed a potential mid-trial settlement of a lawsuit accusing the company of deliberately ​designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to young users