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Re:Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from So... by TZubiri on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:45AM (#49208003)
Maybe I misread, but this is not about addictive products like reels at all, it's about child trafficking being advertised through Instagram with public but non explicit photos, and Meta's failure to remove that content.
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Re:Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from So... by stingraycharles on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:01AM (#49208132)
You’re right, but it seems like the punishments are not really about that, but just a general “protect the children” and age verification system.

> Instead, the court ordered Meta to continue to improve its age-assurance tools in New Mexico, which include using artificial intelligence to determine people’s age based on signals such as who their friends are and what types of content they post and consume. Meta must also attempt to develop a dedicated “under-13-years-of-age prediction model” in the next two years.

I’m sure the results of this will be stellar, being ordered to attempt to develop an AI prediction model… if they try and it doesn’t work they still complied with the order.

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Re:Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from So... by TZubiri on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:07AM (#49208178)
> if they try and it doesn’t work they still complied with the order.

Probably, but they would be still liable for the additional compensatory and punitive damages of the issues they have set precendent for being liable to.

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