Judge lets 29 states take Meta to trial over child addiction claims (reuters.com)
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers refused to throw out 29 states' claims that Meta engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook kids, and she granted the states summary judgment on Meta's failure to obtain parental consent under COPPA.
A 38-page ruling sends the addiction question to a jury, with trial on August 18. On HN the reaction runs from calls for case law to a skeptic who reads it as the government seeing dollar signs and blaming Meta for users' own choices.
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