This topic tracks and analyzes ongoing youth-related lawsuits against Meta in the United States.
Meta Platforms is facing a series of youth-related trials in the US that could lead to material loss from 2026. The two major suites include the State of New Mexico lawsuit and the Social Media Addiction Lawsuits. State of New Mexico alleges that Meta failed to protect children from sexual abuse, online solicitation, and human trafficking while the Social Media Addiction Lawsuits claims that social media platforms such as Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat use sophisticated algorithms to maximize engagement in ways that may exploit the developing brains of children and teenagers.
My current assessment is that these suites will likely end up in a settlement and that the financial impact may not be more than $5 billion.