A New Mexico judge ordered the social media giant to pay $567 million into a fund meant to remedy harms caused by Facebook and Instagram. That comes on top of $375 million in civil penalties a jury previously imposed in the same case, bringing Meta’s total legal bill to $942 million.

The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms.

A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Meta to pay $567 million for a fund that would alleviate the “public nuisance” created by its social media services. The order to pay for youth mental health care is in addition to $375 million in civil penalties that a jury ordered Meta to pay earlier in the same case.

Meta has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent in beta, designed to handle entire engineering tasks from planning to checking code.

Meta, the parent company of social media sites Facebook and Instagram, was ordered by a New Mexico court on Thursday, August 6, to pay nearly $1 billion for failing to warn the public about the

The ruling requires improved age verification, limit chatbot interactions with children, and reduce addictive features.

By Dietrich Knauth Aug 7 (Reuters) - A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, to make major changes to its platforms and pay the largest sum yet in a growing wave of U.