Meta and state attorneys general have held settlement discussions amid the youth social media harm trial now underway in federal court in California, according to Bloomberg.
The case is the largest of its kind, with 29 states pursuing the company and four of them, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, party to the trial that opened this month in Oakland.
Mid-trial settlement talks are not unusual in themselves. They tend to signal that at least one side has revised its estimate of how the evidence is landing, and that this particular trial has produced several days’ worth of internal documents that Meta would presumably rather not be read aloud.
A separate signal arrived from Nevada as Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a press conference regarding what he described as a major consumer protection settlement involving a leading technology company, which he did not name.
Nevada is among the states suing Meta, and the timing invites the connection, though no party has said the two are the same matter.
