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Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1 billion in landmark child-safety settlement

Meta Platforms will pay up to $17.1 billion to resolve a lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging Facebook and Instagram were engineered to be addictive to children. The deal is the largest single tech-industry payout ever recorded and includes industry-wide conditions tied to TikTok and YouTube.

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Meta Platforms will pay up to $17.1 billion to resolve a lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging Facebook and Instagram were engineered to be addictive to children. The deal is the largest single tech-industry payout ever recorded and includes industry-wide conditions tied to TikT…

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