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Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

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Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook
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Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some $18 billion over the next ten years and make sweeping changes to how it approaches child safety.



The lawsuit, organized by the attorneys general of 29 US states, alleged that Meta executives like Mark Zuckerberg created a system that abused data collected from minors, while feigning ignorance about the harms their platforms caused.



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