{"id":1033472,"date":"2026-09-05T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033472"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:23:13","slug":"meta-to-tighten-teen-safety-rules-age-checks-after-17-billion-settlement-how-it-plans-to-change-instagram-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/05\/meta-to-tighten-teen-safety-rules-age-checks-after-17-billion-settlement-how-it-plans-to-change-instagram-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to tighten teen safety rules, age checks after $17 billion settlement: How it plans to change Instagram &amp; Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is set to make its biggest-ever changes to how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram after agreeing to pay up to $17 billion to settle a landmark legal battle with US states over alleged harm to children.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement, which covers 48 states, Washington, DC and several US territories, ends a trial that accused Meta of designing its platforms to keep young users hooked, while allegedly concealing the risks and collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is set to make its biggest-ever changes to how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram after agreeing to pay up to $17 billion to settle a landmark legal battle with US states over alleged harm to children. The settlement, which covers 48 states, Washington, DC and several US territories, ends a trial that accused Meta of designing its platforms to keep young users hooked, while allegedly concealing the risks and collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033473,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033472\/revisions\/1033473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}