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Meta reached a proposed settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general over lawsuits alleging harm to young users, avoiding a federal trial in Northern California. The deal, approved by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, includes payments of up to $16.7 billion over a decade and new teen-focused features like forced time limits, notification blocks, and a chronological feed option.
Jim Cramer said Meta's $18 billion settlement with attorneys general over youth social media addiction claims is a favorable outcome for the company, ending a federal trial that could have exposed Meta to $200 billion in fines. Under the deal with 48 states, D.C., and three territories, Meta agreed to daily time limits, better parental controls, age-verification tools, and fewer notifications during school hours for young users.
Laurie Stach, a 2006 MIT graduate, recalled harboring an early drive to tackle big problems and discovered at MIT that many of her peers shared that same ambition. She argues that while adults praise talented young people in math and science, conventional schooling fails to equip them to act on their ideas now rather than in some distant future.