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Meta's $17 billion teen safety settlement is really a 1% tax — and a play to box in TikTok and YouTube Fortune · 40

Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Platformer · 1 week ago · 22 Instagram is like a digital cigarette and box of chocolates that 'encourages gluttony.' How do you fix that? Fortune · 37

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps TechCrunch · 2 weeks ago · 18 'Harvest their data and hide the truth from the public': Four states seek billions from Meta over child safety practices Fortune · 38

August 2026

◆ Meta agreed to a multistate settlement requiring changes to Instagram and Facebook child-safety and teen-user data practices Legal action

◆ Meta agreed to a US child-safety settlement imposing teen-focused controls and paying nearly $18B over alleged Instagram and Facebook harms Legal action

◆ Meta launches a new Mac app for its AI chatbot with system-wide dictation and screen-context capabilities Deployment

• 29 Aug Meta's $17 billion teen safety settlement is really a 1% tax — and a play to box in TikTok and YouTube
• 27 Aug Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
• 26 Aug Instagram is like a digital cigarette and box of chocolates that 'encourages gluttony.' How do you fix that?
• 20 Aug Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
• 20 Aug 'Harvest their data and hide the truth from the public': Four states seek billions from Meta over child safety practices

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