{"id":85790,"date":"2026-08-26T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85790"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:04:20","slug":"meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-states-in-landmark-trial-over-teen-social-media-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-states-in-landmark-trial-over-teen-social-media-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Reaches $17 Billion Settlement With States In Landmark Trial Over Teen Social Media Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/meta-platforms-inc\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Meta<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-social-media-trials-50b3050f8e257e578a9b5c02a947c95a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a landmark trial<\/a><\/span>\u00a0over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 29 states that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/instagram-facebook-children-teens-harms-lawsuit-attorney-general-1805492a38f7cee111cbb865cc786c28\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">sued the tech giant<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in 2023, but the deal cuts short the trial, which was expected to see CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-trial-instagram-mosseri-1a4cd3adc495d8201e69b7236785e8d4\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">take the stand<\/a><\/span> before a jury in federal court in California.\u00a0The agreement is worth $353 million in Virginia alone and is one of the biggest in state consumer protection history, Attorney General Jay Jones said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: Meta\u00a0has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to.<\/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-85790","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\/85790","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=85790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85791,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85790\/revisions\/85791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}