{"id":1030797,"date":"2026-08-24T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030797"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:07:01","slug":"29-us-states-are-suing-meta-what-might-it-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/29-us-states-are-suing-meta-what-might-it-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"29 US states are suing Meta. What might it mean for the rest of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a trial commenced in the United States that could drastically change how Facebook and Instagram operate globally. <\/p>\n<p>The trial in Oakland, which is expected to last six weeks, pits 29 US states against the two social media platforms\u2019 owner, Meta. Four states \u2013 California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey \u2013 are running the jury case on behalf of the rest. <\/p>\n<p>Their 233-page claim, filed in 2023, makes four key allegations, which paint a damning picture that Meta deliberately designed and monetised Instagram and Facebook to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of children and teenagers. One of the states\u2019 key witnesses is a former Meta safety engineer and whistleblower, Arturo B\u00e9jar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, a trial commenced in the United States that could drastically change how Facebook and Instagram operate globally. The trial in Oakland, which is expected to last six weeks, pits 29 US states against the two social media platforms\u2019 owner, Meta. Four states \u2013 California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey \u2013 are running the jury case on behalf of the rest. Their 233-page claim, filed in 2023, makes four key allegations, which paint a damning picture that Meta deliberately designed and monetised Instagram and Facebook to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities of children and teenagers. One of the states\u2019 key [&hellip;]<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030797","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=1030797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030802,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030797\/revisions\/1030802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}