NewsHK
A state-level campaign to hold social media platforms financially accountable for child safety harms is producing hard dollar outcomes, and the numbers are now large enough to carry beyond American courtrooms.
A Santa Fe district court on Thursday ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, finding that the company's platforms are a "significant contributing cause" of a teen mental health crisis affecting public health and safety throughout the state.
Total charges in the case now stand at nearly $1 billion. The second-phase ruling The Santa Fe district court applied the public nuisance doctrine to Meta's platforms.
That doctrine has traditionally governed environmental contamination and physical infrastructure.
Keep reading