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Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice and a trial lawyer for the states in the multistate child-safety case against Meta.
California's AG says the child-safety case is about civil penalties and restitution, not damages. The exposure sits between $200 billion and $1.4 trillion, plus an order to strip features.
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The states' lawyers were playing for roughly $200 billion. Meta's guaranteed payment is about $12.1 billion spread over ten years, and a third of the headline number depends on TikTok and YouTube.
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Twenty-nine state attorneys general are litigating default data collection and age assurance in federal court, after two adverse outcomes against Meta. Age checks are now a liability line item.
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Arturo Bejar's sworn testimony in Oakland turns "we didn't know" into a documentary question, and puts every executive's internal warning record on the exhibit list.
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States want roughly $200 billion and product changes; Meta says the ask reaches $1.4 trillion. The OpenAI and Ellison stories are real but, as reported, carry no magnitude.
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