A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $375 million (£279 million) for misrepresenting customers about the safety of its platforms for youngsters. A jury said that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, was liable for the way its platforms endangered minors by exposing them to sexually explicit information and putting them in contact with sexual predators.
According to New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, the ruling is “historic” and represents the first time a state has successfully sued Meta for child safety concerns. A Meta spokesman, who said the firm is led by chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, stated that the firm disagrees with the ruling and plans to appeal.
She stated, “We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and are aware of the complexities of identifying and deleting bad actors and dangerous information. We remain confident in our track record of protecting teenagers online. During a seven-week trial, jurors were shown internal Meta papers and heard testimony from former workers about how the firm was aware of child predators on its platforms.
Arturo Béjar, a former technical leader at Meta who left the company in 2021 and became a whistleblower, testified about Instagram studies he conducted that revealed underage users were fed sexualized content.
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