{"id":1031317,"date":"2026-08-27T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031317"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:59:52","slug":"meta-us-states-have-discussed-settling-teen-social-media-harm-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/meta-us-states-have-discussed-settling-teen-social-media-harm-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, US states have discussed settling teen social media harm case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms and state attorneys general have discussed a potential mid-trial \u200bsettlement of a lawsuit \u200baccusing the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to \u200bbe addictive to young users, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The report comes during a federal court trial in California over claims brought \u200cby 29 \u2060states, in \u2060what is one of the highest-profile tests of allegations that social media companies have \u200bharmed young users. Just days before jury selection began on August 12, a federal \u200bappeals court declined to halt the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms and state attorneys general have discussed a potential mid-trial \u200bsettlement of a lawsuit \u200baccusing the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to \u200bbe addictive to young users, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report comes during a federal court trial in California over claims brought \u200cby 29 \u2060states, in \u2060what is one of the highest-profile tests of allegations that social media companies have \u200bharmed young users. Just days before jury selection began on August 12, a federal \u200bappeals court declined to halt the trial.<\/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-1031317","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\/1031317","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=1031317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031338,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031317\/revisions\/1031338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}