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Meta’s $17.1bn child safety settlement tied to rivals’ compliance

Meta’s landmark $17.1 billion child safety settlement with US states is contingent on TikTok and YouTube adopting comparable safeguards, a structure that reverses the logic of the 1998 tobacco deal and leaves the company’s broader legal exposure unresolved.

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Meta’s landmark $17.1 billion child safety settlement with US states is contingent on TikTok and YouTube adopting comparable safeguards, a structure that reverses the logic of the 1998 tobacco deal and leaves the company’s broader legal exposure unresolved.

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