New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567M for child mental health harms

In a ruling that places the weight of institutional accountability squarely on one of the world's most powerful digital platforms, a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million for the documented harm its social networks inflicted on children's mental health. The judgment, emerging from a trial Meta lost in March, does not merely extract a financial toll — it compels the company to redesign its platforms, build new safeguards for young users, and submit to ongoing state oversight. It is a moment in which the law, however imperfectly, attempts to reckon with the human cost of algorith