Catch-Up on Kids Mental Health
Sep 15, 2026 · 28 min · 9 segments
For years, concerns about the impact of social media on children and teens has largely focused on the kinds of content they are exposed to. But a recent landmark settlement with Meta signals an…
Maanit ZemelGuest
Janet MorrisonHost
Their usual MO is to fight and take things as far as they can, simply because they have unlimited resources and often... whoever it is on the other side, the parties, the plaintiffs, don't have similar resources.
And as well, it involves some terms that require META to implement certain measures into their platforms.
So, I mean, there's several reasons I would assume why if Meta was my client and I would assume this is why I would recommend they settle.
You know, I think they saw the writing on the wall last year or not even last year, a few months ago, there were a couple of lawsuits that Mera did fight and lost in the US, one in California and one in New Mexico, that in which those particular lawsuits were brought by private individuals versus these, you know, the ones that they currently settled, which were brought by the attorney generals by the states themselves.
But the private lawsuits that MEDA had lost in California and New Mexico alleged similar harms, right? They were brought by children and underage and the juries in both trials found MEDA liable for these harmful content and the issues that arose in these lawsuits that they settled.
And so they looked at where things were going and thought, well, you know, if we now, if we fight this and take this to trial and we lose, we're going to create a precedent that then can be used by other states, other lawsuits, and there's many, many more lawsuits like it across the U.S., which that settlement will then be, you know, that precedent will apply to all those other lawsuits.
And so if they settle, and which they did, the settlement will only apply to the parties to the settlement.
Their usual MO is to fight and take things as far as they can, simply because they have unlimited resources and often... whoever it is on the other side, the parties, the plaintiffs, don't have similar resources.
And as well, it involves some terms that require META to implement certain measures into their platforms.
So, I mean, there's several reasons I would assume why if Meta was my client and I would assume this is why I would recommend they settle.
You know, I think they saw the writing on the wall last year or not even last year, a few months ago, there were a couple of lawsuits that Mera did fight and lost in the US, one in California and one in New Mexico, that in which those particular lawsuits were brought by private individuals versus these, you know, the ones that they currently settled, which were brought by the attorney generals by the states themselves.
But the private lawsuits that MEDA had lost in California and New Mexico alleged similar harms, right? They were brought by children and underage and the juries in both trials found MEDA liable for these harmful content and the issues that arose in these lawsuits that they settled.
And so they looked at where things were going and thought, well, you know, if we now, if we fight this and take this to trial and we lose, we're going to create a precedent that then can be used by other states, other lawsuits, and there's many, many more lawsuits like it across the U.S., which that settlement will then be, you know, that precedent will apply to all those other lawsuits.
And so if they settle, and which they did, the settlement will only apply to the parties to the settlement.
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