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Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million Fine by New Mexico Judge

The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of a $375 million fine ordered by a jury that found Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms.
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms.

The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine.

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Β© Photograph: Jill Connelly/Getty Images

Β© Photograph: Jill Connelly/Getty Images

Β© Photograph: Jill Connelly/Getty Images

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Mexico Declares War on Stinky Seaweed

A changing climate is helping to fuel the growth of a gigantic blob of foul-smelling seaweed that has washed up in some coastal communities. Mexico is fighting back.

Β© Fernando Llano/Associated Press

Members of the Mexican Navy removed sargassum from the shore at Puerto Morelos, on the Caribbean coast, last week.
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