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Meta runs into expensive child safety reckoning
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Key facts
- In a Los Angeles court, also in March, Meta was held liable for $4.2m in damages for designing platforms that addict and hurt children
- The latest blow came last week, after a New Mexico court hit Meta with an order to pay $567m into a teen mental health fund to remediate the harm its platforms have caused children
- Meanwhile, Google’s current chief scientist, Jeff Dean, a 27-year veteran, and three colleagues are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, a startup the tech giant is backing
- ChatGPT is still decidedly in the lead, with 1.11 billion monthly users as of May, according to data from the market intelligence firm Sensor Tower
Summary
Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. The pressure on social media giants including Meta is mounting, as courts work through a growing pile of cases and deliver devastating, expensive rulings, one after another. The latest blow came last week, after a New Mexico court hit Meta with an order to pay $567m into a teen mental health fund to remediate the harm its platforms have caused children. But New Mexico is the latest of many headaches in store for social media companies including Meta. At the center of the battle is the growing concern that social media companies harm its youngest users with addictive features that propel issues such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.