{"id":1029103,"date":"2026-08-17T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029103"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:47:21","slug":"us-states-seek-200-billion-penalty-in-blockbuster-meta-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/us-states-seek-200-billion-penalty-in-blockbuster-meta-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"US states seek $200 billion penalty in blockbuster Meta lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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-1029103","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\/1029103","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=1029103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029115,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029103\/revisions\/1029115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}