I call bullshit. It will be some fine that the courts will think are high, and Facebook will laugh and write it off as a business expense.
It’s gotten to the point where even a reasonable fine would be too little to actually cause meaningful change. They’d feel a slight chill and think how that was weird, they thought they’d closed the window. We’d have to do something substantially consistent or substantially punitive.
New Mexico said it plans to ask the judge to order Meta to make changes including verifying users’ ages; redesigning its algorithm to promote quality content for minors; and ending autoplay and infinite scrolling for minors.
Just Meta, or all social media platforms that have these same features? The article is unclear as to whether this would become a law or just enforced against Meta.
A judge can’t make laws. Higher courts can set precedents about how existing laws are interpreted,but that isn’t happening here. The judgment will be specific to Meta.
