Meta hit with $567m fine in landmark child safety ruling

Children exposed to sexually explicit material, sexual predators, and psychological harm through Meta's platforms; families, schools, and law enforcement burdened by resulting harms.

In a New Mexico federal courtroom, a judge has placed Meta alongside factory polluters in the long history of institutions held accountable for harm they spread into the commons. The $567 million ruling — the largest child safety penalty Meta has faced — rests on the ancient legal concept of public nuisance, arguing that algorithmic systems designed to capture attention have instead captured children, delivering them to exploitation and psychological injury that spills from screens into schools, hospitals, and homes. It is a moment in which the law is slowly catching up to the scale of a harm

Meta hit with $567m fine in landmark child safety ruling

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