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Meta reaches $18 billion settlement with states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction

26 August 2026
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Meta agreed Wednes­day to pay up to $18 bil­lion and add stronger child-safe­ty mea­sures to its Face­book and In­sta­gram plat­forms as part of a land­mark le­gal set­tle­ment that end­ed a tri­al over teen so­cial me­dia ad­dic­tion and set­tled claims filed by near­ly every state.