News Summary

• Meta lost a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico last week, marking the first time the company has been held liable by the court system for endangering child safety.
• The next day, Meta lost another case when a jury in Los Angeles found that the company knowingly designed its apps to be addictive to children and teens.
• These precedents open the floodgates for a wave of lawsuits concerning Meta’s intentional pursuit of teen users, despite its knowledge that its apps can have negative mental impacts on teens.