{"id":6013,"date":"2026-08-26T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:46:43","slug":"meta-state-ag-kids-online-safety-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6013","title":{"rendered":"Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Under the terms of the settlement, 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\u2019t be shown content based on Meta\u2019s 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 \u201clongform content\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\"><em>This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/985032\/meta-state-ag-kids-online-safety-settlement\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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