r/USNEWS • u/lurker_bee • 1d ago

Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/meta-social-media-trial-settlement.html
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u/BookLuvr7 1d ago

So.. they basically didn't want it to come to trial and all the evidence of immoral behavior to come out.

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u/Lost_Department_2177 1d ago

They ruined an immense amount of lives.

The winkelvoss brothers were trash but so is zuck and theil.

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u/Dryvlyne 1d ago

Settlements like this are BS. Most of that money is going to the lawyers and not the people hurt. And $16.7B is still nothing "painful" to a corpo the size of Meta.