{"id":83202,"date":"2026-08-26T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:57:20","slug":"meta-settles-social-media-court-case-for-up-to-18-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83202\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta settles social media court case for up to $18 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Meta settles social media court case for up to $18 billion\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K35SA1444z0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeta settles social media court case for up to $18 billion<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle a major US court case alleging Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social media platforms harmed children. Meta is also agreeing to sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>It ends a landmark trial in California before Zuckerberg was due to take the stand, and comes a day after the head of Instagram testified. <\/p>\n<p>Meta agreed to introduce daily limits and night-time blocks for US teenagers using its platforms, and it wants its rivals to do the same. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a historic day for social media campaigners in America, but will it change anything in the UK?<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Meta settles US court case for up to $18bn<br \/>\n2:04 &#8211; Platforms must be &#8216;100% responsible&#8217; for content kids see online<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta settles social media court case for up to $18 billion Meta has agreed to pay up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[67318,366,352,365,354,353,46964,3510,67319,64893,67220,67320,64892,43879,42,3197,2053,341,258,235,60907],"class_list":["post-83202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-18-billion","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-meta-billion","tag-meta-court","tag-meta-settlement","tag-meta-sued","tag-meta-trial","tag-settlement","tag-social-media","tag-tech-news","tag-technology","tag-uk-news","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-zuckerberg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117163500912814493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}