{"id":56,"date":"2026-05-02T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/metas-historic-loss-in-court-could-cost-a-lot-more-than-375-million\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:25:26","slug":"metas-historic-loss-in-court-could-cost-a-lot-more-than-375-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/metas-historic-loss-in-court-could-cost-a-lot-more-than-375-million\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>Meta\u2019s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Mark Zuckerberg in front of background of Meta logo.\" data-caption=\"Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/STKS507_FTCxMETA_ANTITRUST_CVIRGINIA_2_E.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\tMark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">New Mexico Attorney General Ra\u00fal Torrez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/899910\/meta-new-mexico-jury-verdict\">won a historic sum of $375 million<\/a> in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. But the next stage of the fight could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Beginning Monday, attorneys for Meta and New Mexico will return to a Santa Fe courthouse for a three-week public nuisance trial, where they&#8217;ll argue over the <a href=\"https:\/\/nmdoj.gov\/press-release\/after-375-million-loss-meta-tries-to-run-court-says-no\/\">changes the AG wants the judge to order<\/a> Meta make to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Those changes include adding age verification for New Mexico users, prohibiting end-to-end encryption for users under 18 and capping their use to 90  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/922380\/new-mexico-meta-public-nuisance-trial-kids-safety\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images New Mexico Attorney General Ra\u00fal Torrez won a historic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,26,22,27,28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-law","category-meta","category-policy","category-privacy","category-speech","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}