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Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation

Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

A jury on Tuesday found Meta violated New Mexico law in a case accusing it of failing to warn users about the dangers of its platforms and protect children from sexual predators.

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johnea 3d ago

Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts)

They very much want to push this liability off onto someone else...

As far as end-to-end encryption, on SM sites (social media or SadoMasochism, however you want to read it) I don't really see the need.

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tzs

> Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts)

The references I saw showed Meta had lobbied for some of the laws that require age verification be done by the site or by third party ID services. They did not show that Meta lobbied for any of the OS bills.

Some showed that Meta had lobbied in some of the states with those bills, but they just showed Meta's total lobbying budget for those states.