Jury wallops Meta with massive penalty for harming children

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By Robert Davis
Published March 24, 2026 6:02 PM ET

A jury in New Mexico found Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, liable for harming children and ordered the company to pay an eye-popping $375 million fine, according to a new report.

The ruling concludes more than six weeks of testimony from company representatives and officials from New Mexico. Officials claimed that internal documents proved Meta was targeting young children with harmful content to keep children on their apps longer, which in turn boosted company revenue.

Meta disputed those claims, calling them "cherry-picked" and "taken out of context," local news station KRQE reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/meta-2676615225/

[mr715]

1. Is $375 million even a drop?

Don't we need judgements in the billions to make these companies hurt?

[RockRaven]

2. Yeah, it is basically nothing to them. They were wasting over $10 BILLION A YEAR on "the metaverse."

[TexLaProgressive]

3. Sin ce the supremes made corporations people

They should be charged in criminal court. If guilty broken up and sold for junk.