{"id":83547,"date":"2026-08-27T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:43:43","slug":"mother-reacts-to-meta-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83547\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother reacts to Meta settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Mother reacts to Meta settlement\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27hdLWzmDh4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMother reacts to Meta settlement<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cNo amount of money is ever going to bring my beautiful daughter back,\u201d Victoria Hicks said in an emotional statement outside a federal courtroom in California where Meta settled a trial over teenage addiction to its platforms.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Victoria, whose daughter, Alexandra Hicks, took her own life at the age of 16 blames social media companies for her daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Meta agreed to establish safeguards for teenagers, including significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps, and pay up to $18bn after dozens of US states accused the tech giant of addicting and harming children with dangerous products.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement will be divided between the states involved in the lawsuit over a period of 10 years, subject to court approval. Throughout the proceedings, Meta denied all allegations.<\/p>\n<p>California would receive between $1.5bn and $2.1bn and Colorado will get about $615m.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap face thousands more similar US lawsuits brought by families, individuals, school districts and other attorneys general.<\/p>\n<p>#meta #metasettlement #socialmediaaddiction #usa #instagram #facebook #markzuckerberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mother reacts to Meta settlement \u201cNo amount of money is ever going to bring my beautiful daughter back,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,4252,67627,410,19593,67613,67626,41851,6182,1864,6656,67614,46952,3511,67624,67625,67298,9929,240,261,67615,22855,3512,67616,67617,46964,3510,67220,64892,31,67618,31445,42,4254,67619,67620,61093,15615,19594,2053,67621,197,44,67622,5233,67623],"class_list":["post-83547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-addiction","tag-addictive","tag-america","tag-big-tech","tag-bullies","tag-bullying","tag-cali","tag-california","tag-children","tag-court-case","tag-doomscrolling","tag-engagement","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-deaths","tag-facebook-feed","tag-federal","tag-friends","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-infinite-scrolling","tag-influencers","tag-instagram","tag-instagram-feed","tag-likes","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-meta-settlement","tag-meta-trial","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-shares","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-addiction","tag-social-media-addicts","tag-social-media-apps","tag-socials","tag-suicide","tag-tech-bros","tag-technology","tag-trolls","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-victoria-hicks","tag-whatsapp","tag-zuck"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83547","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=83547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}