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wired.comMeta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not AllIn addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.

The company has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to 51 US states and territories and make substantive product changes for how teens engage with its platforms. www.wired.com/story/meta-w...

wired.comThe Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still VulnerableChild safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.

Advocates for children tell WIRED that Meta’s legal settlement to address concerns about teenagers’ use of social media proposes important and overdue feature changes that invite more parental oversight than ever before. www.wired.com/story/the-me...

wired.comThe Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still VulnerableChild safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.

They also, though, say it puts a significant burden on caregivers and unreliable age-assessment systems. www.wired.com/story/the-me...

wired.comThe Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still VulnerableChild safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.

Digital rights activists are sounding alarms that the increased age-verification measures that would be built into Meta’s apps for teens would “enshrine Meta's harmful surveillance into law.” www.wired.com/story/the-me...

Gordon McAlpin

@gmcalpin.bsky.social

this is why they were so quick to settle, huh. nice trade-off.