Meta just bought its way out of a courtroom reckoning — and the state attorneys general who cut the deal handed Mark Zuckerberg the pen to write his own terms. The $17 billion settlement ending the multistate lawsuit over addictive design and teen harm lets the tech giant define what
Meta's $17B Settlement Lets Zuck Write the Harm Rules
State AGs handed Zuck the pen: a deal that barely dents Meta's bottom line and lets the company define what counts as harm.

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