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Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
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Age verification, two-hour usage limits, and a $17.1 billion payout will resolve claims from dozens of states.
Age verification, two-hour usage limits, and a $17.1 billion payout will resolve claims from dozens of states.
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Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars.
Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have a false positive rate no higher than 10 percent for users aged 16 to 17, and 3 percent for users aged 13 to 15. The company also agreed to give teens the option to turn off personalized feeds, meaning that they won’t be shown content based on Meta’s recommendation algorithm, and Meta will suspend push notifications for teens between 10 PM and 7 AM unless parents disable those restrictions, as well as limit teens to two hours of Meta app usage per day (with exceptions for messaging and “longform content”).
Meta will also agree to pay $17.1 billion to states over a period of 10 years. The company outlined its obligations in a blog post, noting that $5.3 billion of this money will only be paid out if YouTube and TikTok implement their own daily time limits and each pay an equivalent amount to that figure.