Meta’s Settlement on Youth Trial Puts the Pressure on Parents

The deal relies on parents to uphold the guardrails that limit teens’ access to social media

By Edward Ludlow

Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Vjeran Pavic, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

Meta’s $18bn settlement shows the wrong way to keep kids safe

Relying on mutual compromise is a flawed way to protect young users

What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?

Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands In October 2021, Abrham Meareg’s father, a professor of chemistry in Ethiopia’s northern town of Bahir Dar, was shot at close range and died outside his family home. This was in the middle of the country’s civil war. For weeks, Facebook’s algorithm had actively promoted posts calling for the academic to be murdered, according to Meareg and Foxglove, a nonpro...

By Aisha Down

How teen accounts on Instagram and Facebook are changing after Meta's $18B US settlement

Changes are coming for teen Instagram and Facebook users after parent company Meta agreed to platform changes in a landmark U.S. settlement to resolve claims of online harms to youth. Experts tell CBC News what's changing, how widely and what impact this might have going forward.

By Jessica Wong

What Meta bought with its $18 billion settlement

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC Meta's new restrictions on teen accounts come with some convenient exceptions. A version of this story appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. Last week, when Meta went on trial over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict kids, I hunkered down for weeks of testimony from executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Just eight days later, it was over. On Wednesday, Me...

Türkiye weighs updates after Meta youth safety deal

Türkiye is assessing whether further safeguards are needed after Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and introduce new limits on minors’ use of Facebook and Instagram under a settlement with U.S. state attorneys general.