Meta will be happy with its $18bn US settlement – but the costs of child online safety will keep rising for big tech

Chris Stokel-Walker 27 Aug United Kingdom

This week’s settlement without liability was pragmatic, but it doesn’t change the inevitability of further lawsuits around the world Not many people would count paying $18bn they didn’t expect to when they woke up that morning as a victory. Yet for Meta, the owners of Facebook and Instagram, the agreement with 52 US attorneys general to settle claims that it designed its products to be addictive t

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