{"id":24300,"date":"2026-08-07T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-over-harms-to-childrens-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:37:56","slug":"new-mexico-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-over-harms-to-childrens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-over-harms-to-childrens-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children\u2019s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users<\/p>\n<p>A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant\u2019s platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children\u2019s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/24\/meta-new-mexico-jury\">imposed the maximum penalty<\/a>: a $375m fine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/06\/new-mexico-court-meta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6e9c72f1d4d1541ee16137214046b3255b6a1981\/410_0_6827_5464\/master\/6827.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fc0791b85992062fd71c41a285d15916\" title=\"New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children\u2019s mental health\" \/>Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users<br \/>\nA New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant\u2019s platforms.<br \/>\nThe Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children\u2019s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant\u2019s platforms. The Thursday ruling comes as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-over-harms-to-childrens-mental-health\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children\u2019s mental health<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}