Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

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Meta settled its latest kids online information proceedings with a radical of 29 authorities attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a proceedings that could person outgo it hundreds of billions of dollars.

Under the presumption of the settlement, Meta agreed to travel up with an property assurance modular that is taxable to autarkic testing, and indispensable person a mendacious affirmative complaint nary higher than 10 percent for users aged 16 to 17, and 3 percent for users aged 13 to 15. The institution besides agreed to springiness teens the enactment to crook disconnected personalized feeds, meaning that they won't beryllium shown contented based connected Meta's proposal algorithm, and Meta volition suspend propulsion notificati …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.