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FILE PHOTO: People use their mobile phones, ahead of new law banning social media for users under 16 in Australia, at dusk in Brisbane, Australia, December 8, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, 30 March, 2026. Lukas Coch/AAP/via REUTERS./File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
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Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
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States' attorneys and Meta lawyers speak with U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers after Meta Platforms agreed to pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children, in Oakland, California, U.S., August 26, 2026 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Vicki Behringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. NO USE ABC, BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC
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27/08/2026
FILE PHOTO: Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration created on September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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26/08/2026
FILE PHOTO: Cars drive past a sign of Meta, the new name for the company formerly known as Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Kick, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Reddit, Threads and X applications are displayed on a mobile phone ahead of new law banning social media for users under 16 in Australia, in this picture illustration taken on December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/Illustration/File Photo
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