Meta Reaches Multistate Settlement Over Claims of Youth Addiction Harm
Meta reached an agreement with 52 U.S. attorneys general to settle a lawsuit alleging it knowingly designed addictive platforms that harmed young people’s mental health. About 30% of the settlement depends on YouTube and TikTok joining, making the guaranteed cost roughly $1.2B per year (under 1% of Meta’s opex). Meta still faces hundreds of individual and district lawsuits over youth harms.