Prosecutors are searching for basic adjustments to Meta’s social media apps. File
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New Mexico State prosecutors are searching for basic adjustments to Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to safeguard youngsters within the second section of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms comparable to Instagram have created a public security hazard.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday (Might 4, 2026) within the three-week bench trial to determine whether or not the platforms of Meta, which additionally owns Fb and WhatsApp, pose a public nuisance beneath State legislation.
Within the first section, jurors ordered $375 million in civil penalties in opposition to Meta, figuring out that it knowingly harmed youngsters’s psychological well being and hid what it knew about baby sexual exploitation on its platforms.
Printed – Might 04, 2026 12:45 pm IST