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How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together

29 August 2026 at 12:02
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

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Meta’s $17.1 billion agreement with states followed losses in court over claims that the social media is addictive and harmful to children.

“Anxious Generation” Author Jonathan Haidt on the Meta Settlement

27 August 2026 at 17:42
In “The Anxious Generation,” he laid out the evils of social media for kids. The landmark Meta settlement seems to agree.

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Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 book on the harms to children from social media was a best seller.
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