{"id":1027977,"date":"2026-08-11T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027977"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:23:49","slug":"meta-will-soon-face-another-high-stakes-trial-in-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/meta-will-soon-face-another-high-stakes-trial-in-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta will soon face another high-stakes trial in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND: With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a case brought by four US states.<\/p>\n<p>The federal trial, one of the most consequential among a myriad of legal proceedings targeting social networks in the United States, will begin Wednesday (August 12, 2026) with jury selection at a federal court in Oakland, near San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Opening statements are expected to start next week on August 18, with the trial lasting for roughly six weeks, followed by a verdict in early October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND: With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a case brought by four US states. The federal trial, one of the most consequential among a myriad of legal proceedings targeting social networks in the United States, will begin Wednesday (August 12, 2026) with jury selection at a federal court in Oakland, near San Francisco. Opening statements are expected to start next week on August 18, with the trial lasting for roughly six weeks, followed by a verdict in early October.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027977","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=1027977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027984,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027977\/revisions\/1027984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}