New Mexico Court Orders Meta To Pay Nearly $1 Billion In Landmark Child Safety Case

The ruling compared Meta to a polluting factory and said: “the Court finds and concludes that, just as noxious pollution produced by the factory can harm the common public right to reasonably clean air, the harmful effects of Meta's platforms on children do not stay contained by its platforms and, instead, migrate to the internet as a whole and, perhaps most concerning, to the real world and create a common, societal burden on and harm to the affected children and their families and schools, as well as hospitals and law enforcement.”