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Story summary
- A District Court in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to pay $567 million for harms to young people on Instagram and Facebook.
- Judge Bryan Biedscheid allocated $420 million for treatment, the rest for awareness, barred Meta from tools that collect data from children under 13, and raised total liability to $942 million.
- Meta must add banners, improve AI-based age-assurance tools and develop an under-13 prediction model within two years; it will appeal.
