Meta suffered stinging defeats in two separate trials involving child safety that underscore shifting public sentiment toward the social media industry.

The lawsuit concerned allegations that Meta covered up its platforms’ impact on children's mental health and its knowledge of child exploitation online.

The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in damages by a Santa Fe jury, which found the company prioritized profits over safety and concealed what it knew about the harmful…

The jury hit Meta with a $375 million verdict.

A court in the US has ordered Meta to pay $375m after a jury found that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, enabled harm including child sexual exploitation on its…

Landmark trial “shakes Big Tech to its core”; complaint argued companies knowingly designed addictive products that exposed children to harm.

The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for two of the world's most valuable companies.

Meta suffered stinging defeats in two separate trials involving child safety that underscore shifting public sentiment toward the social media industry.

Back-to-back landmark court losses pushed further losses for the Facebook parent’s stock.

With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s

Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify.

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies

Meta's two courtroom defeats centered on different cases but both involved allegations that the company knew about its products' harms.