Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment NYT > Top Stories By: David Streitfeld 28 August 2026 at 19:13 Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time. © Jason Henry for The New York TimesMeta will pay up to $17.1 billion over a decade and make changes to its social media properties to make them less compulsive for young people.
What Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Means NYT > Top Stories By: Cecilia Kang · Nikolay Nikolov · Paul Abowd · Alexandra Ostasiewicz and June Kim 27 August 2026 at 21:54 Our reporter Cecilia Kang explains Meta’s settlement of a lawsuit claiming that the company’s social media platforms had harmed teenage users.
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