{"id":1028840,"date":"2026-08-15T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028840"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:30:36","slug":"us-states-seek-200-bn-penalty-in-blockbuster-meta-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/us-states-seek-200-bn-penalty-in-blockbuster-meta-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"US states seek $200 bn penalty in blockbuster Meta lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland: A coalition of US states will seek around $200 billion in damages against Meta, which they accuse of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for children, when a landmark trial kicks off on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Meta previously had claimed in court documents that the financial penalties could reach $1.4 trillion, close to its entire market value which hovers around $1.5 trillion. <\/p>\n<p>With more than three billion users across all of its apps, Meta will defend itself in the six-week-long trial beginning on August 18 when opening statements begin in Oakland, a short drive from San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland: A coalition of US states will seek around $200 billion in damages against Meta, which they accuse of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for children, when a landmark trial kicks off on Tuesday. Meta previously had claimed in court documents that the financial penalties could reach $1.4 trillion, close to its entire market value which hovers around $1.5 trillion. With more than three billion users across all of its apps, Meta will defend itself in the six-week-long trial beginning on August 18 when opening statements begin in Oakland, a short drive from San Francisco.<\/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-1028840","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\/1028840","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=1028840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028855,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028840\/revisions\/1028855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}