Meta sued by US states

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Une quarantaine d'Etats américains vient de déposer plainte contre Meta, la société-mère de Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp. Le motif : la multinationale serait au courant des risques qu'encourent les jeunes abonnés de ses plateformes. Les termes utilisés sont graves : Facebook e ...  Show more

Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst, discusses Meta Platforms being sued by 41 states over addictive features in Instagram and Facebook that are harming the mental health of young people. Ann Lipton, business law professor at Tulane University, discusses how Inst ...  Show more

A historic set of new lawsuits, filed by more than three dozen states, accuses Meta, the country’s largest social media company, of illegally luring children onto its platforms and hooking them on its products.

Natasha Singer, who covers technology, business and society ...

On Monday, as people were still reeling from the devastation of the wildfires in B.C. and in the Northwest Territories, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lashed out at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over its decision to block news from its platforms in Canada. Th ...  Show more