{"id":85241,"date":"2026-08-07T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85241"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:43:20","slug":"meta-ordered-to-pay-567-million-in-new-mexico-child-safety-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/meta-ordered-to-pay-567-million-in-new-mexico-child-safety-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way young people can use its platforms, the largest financial penalty yet against the tech giant in its ongoing legal battles over social media harm and addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">The ruling, issued late Thursday, was in addition to\u00a0<a class=\"css-bhdv0x-linkClass\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/24\/technology\/meta-new-mexico-child-safety-violations.html\">$375 million that Meta was ordered to pay<\/a> in the same case in March, when a jury found that the company misled users about the safety of its platforms and enabled the sexual exploitation of young people.\u00a0The $567 million will go toward a fund to remedy damages caused by the company, including money for treatment of young people who have been harmed by social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Times: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85243,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85241\/revisions\/85243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}