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A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay US$567 million to address harms to young people from Instagram and Facebook, adding to a US$375 million penalty imposed in March. The ruling requires Meta to implement age verification tools and safety features.
Meta and Anthropic are negotiating a potential $10 billion computing power lease over two years, as the social media giant diversifies revenue streams beyond advertising into cloud infrastructure services.
Meta has appealed a landmark Los Angeles verdict holding it liable for social media addiction in young users, as legal pressures intensify globally over teen mental health and platform design practices.
The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings accusing Meta of using addictive design techniques to exploit children on Facebook and Instagram, marking a significant escalation in the bloc's Digital Services Act enforcement.