{"id":1006843,"date":"2026-05-05T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006843"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:26:33","slug":"new-mexico-seeks-3-7-billion-changes-to-meta-platforms-in-youth-harm-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/new-mexico-seeks-3-7-billion-changes-to-meta-platforms-in-youth-harm-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico seeks $3.7 billion, changes to Meta platforms in youth harm trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US state of New Mexico on Monday asked a judge to declare Meta Platforms a public nuisance, order the company to \u200bpay $3.7 billion and overhaul its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp \u200bplatforms to protect young users. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across the country, children are begging for help,&#8221; David Ackerman, an attorney for New \u200bMexico, told the judge in opening statements. &#8220;You will hear testimony that confirms there is a mental health crisis, and that it is fueled and caused by social media. We need to fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US state of New Mexico on Monday asked a judge to declare Meta Platforms a public nuisance, order the company to \u200bpay $3.7 billion and overhaul its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp \u200bplatforms to protect young users. &#8220;Across the country, children are begging for help,&#8221; David Ackerman, an attorney for New \u200bMexico, told the judge in opening statements. &#8220;You will hear testimony that confirms there is a mental health crisis, and that it is fueled and caused by social media. We need to fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}