Meta accused of targeting children to boost Facebook and Instagram use, as US trial begins
Meta Platforms intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a lawyer for California said on Tuesday at the start of a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet. A bipartisan group of 29 US states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how Meta does business. Four lead…
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- States take Meta to trial in California in the biggest fight yet over social media harms to children apnews.com
- Meta accused of targeting children to boost Facebook and Instagram use, as US trial begins scmp.com
- Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction yro.slashdot.org
- Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users techspot.com
- Meta faces mammoth fine in landmark social media trial siliconangle.com
- US states take on Meta in pivotal trial over child social media addiction claims theguardian.com
- How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; Judge Rogers established a hybrid structure for the multi-week trial (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) reuters.com
- Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California cnbc.com
