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  • Members of Colorado's trial team celebrate after Meta’s settlement on 26 August 2026 in Oakland, California.

    The Guardian view on regulating big tech: Meta has got off too lightly

  • Jonathan Liew

    The law won’t save us from Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’. The only solution is mockery

    Jonathan Liew
  • Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg wears a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses

    Smartglasses should automatically blur people’s faces while filming, Australia’s online safety regulator says

    Smartglasses with cameras can benefit the vision impaired but companies might pit ‘accessibility benefits against safety and privacy’, eSafety says
  • Jonathan Freedland

    An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon

    Jonathan Freedland
    Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle to come, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • A child lies down, reaching a hand toward a smartphone on a textured blanket

    First Edition newsletter
    Friday briefing: ​Could Meta’s ​child‑​safety ​settlement ​open the ​door​ to global reform?

    In today’s newsletter: ​T​he vast US payout may reshape teen safety online​ beyond the borders of America, but there are more lawsuits to come
    Newsletter
  • Mark Zuckerberg walks through a crowd of photographers and reporters outside a courthouse

    What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?

    Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands
  • Rebecca Hendin on Mark Zuckerberg and the Meta court settlement – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Rebecca Hendin on Mark Zuckerberg and the Meta court settlement – cartoon

    The US tech giant will pay $18bn and has agreed to protections for teens on its Facebook and Instagram platforms
  • Chris Stokel-Walker

    An $18bn settlement is a drop in the ocean for Meta – but the tide will still come for it

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    This week’s settlement without liability was pragmatic, but it doesn’t change the inevitability of further lawsuits around the world, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker
  • Child lying down, reaching for a smartphone on a textured blanket

    UK expects Meta to match US child safety measures after $18bn settlement

    Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to Britain
  • A man wearing a suit and holding a satchel walking.

    Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers

    Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all-clear to say the product is safe’
  • Close-up of teenage boys' hands holding and scrolling on smartphones while sitting next to each other

    Meta’s settlement will compel others to bend the knee and set up teen guardrails

    Instagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of up to $18bn to settle a landmark trial

    • What’s about to change on Facebook and Instagram: six key takeaways from the end of the Meta trial

    • Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn

    • Parent whose 16-year-old daughter died by suicide reacts to Meta settlement – video

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    Instagram CEO denies company hid low use of teen safety feature in Meta trial

  • Meta faces a landmark trial in federal court over claims from 29 states, alleging it improperly captured data from minors, in OaklandJurors watch Elena Davis, a social impact user experience researcher at Meta, in recorded testimony as Meta faces a landmark trial in federal court over claims from 29 states, alleging it improperly captured data from minors, designed its social media platforms to addict children and misled the public about their safety in Oakland, California, U.S., August 19, 2026 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. NO USE ABC, BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC and all the broadcast TV local Bay Area affiliates.

    TechScape newsletter
    Meta goes on trial as Silicon Valley faces a growing backlash

    Newsletter
  • aerial view of a data center

    Is there a pending AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0

    Gene Marks
    Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverable
  • Courtroom sketch of jurors watching Meta researcher Elena Davis testify on a video screen

    Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • An Uber taxi

    Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions

    European regulators have imposed billions in penalties on US technology companies due to privacy, competition and digital market rules
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