{"id":1017976,"date":"2026-07-01T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017976"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:34:55","slug":"meta-loses-bid-to-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/meta-loses-bid-to-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta loses bid to dismiss US states&#8217; claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge rejected Meta Platforms&#8217; bid to dismiss a lawsuit by 29 \u200bU.S. state attorneys general accusing it of \u200bdesigning Facebook and Instagram to addict children and knowingly concealing the harm \u200bfrom the public. <\/p>\n<p>In a decision late Monday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, denied Meta&#8217;s motion to dismiss claims based on deception, unfair practices and violations of the federal Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act. <\/p>\n<p>The judge also \u200csaid Meta did \u2060not comply \u2060with that law&#8217;s notice and parental consent requirements, and granted summary judgment to the states on that issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge rejected Meta Platforms&#8217; bid to dismiss a lawsuit by 29 \u200bU.S. state attorneys general accusing it of \u200bdesigning Facebook and Instagram to addict children and knowingly concealing the harm \u200bfrom the public. In a decision late Monday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, denied Meta&#8217;s motion to dismiss claims based on deception, unfair practices and violations of the federal Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act. The judge also \u200csaid Meta did \u2060not comply \u2060with that law&#8217;s notice and parental consent requirements, and granted summary judgment to the states on that issue.<\/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-1017976","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\/1017976","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=1017976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017977,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017976\/revisions\/1017977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}