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Chief legal officer at Meta, overseeing the company's legal affairs, policy, and regulatory compliance strategy.
Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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A judge signed off on the payout, but the enforceable part is a list of product defaults only a parent can undo. Meta's rivals had the terms written for them.
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New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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Annualised, the money is well under one percent of Meta's revenue. The product defaults filed in Oakland are the part every consumer app with teen users will be measured against.
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Three attorney general offices published three different guaranteed floors. The rest of the money only moves if rivals who were never sued adopt Meta's teen rules and pay a matching share.
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Meta withheld 30 percent of the payout unless two rivals ship a one-hour cap, night mode and age assurance. The 52 attorneys general who signed now have a reason to go collect.
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