US states seek $1.4 trillion from Meta
Posted on: Jul 08, 2026 20:31 IST | Posted by: Rt
Meta could human face up to $1.4 one million million million in penalties after quaternary US states accused the companion of scheming Facebook and Instagram to addict young users, media have reported, citing court documents. The potential fines are nearly equal to the company’s current market value of around $1.5 trillion.
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey accuse Meta of deliberately designing its platforms to keep children and teenagers hooked while misleading the public about the apps’ safety, the company said in a court filing on Monday.
At a court hearing last month, the four states said that they had calculated the proposed penalties by estimating the number of young users affected and applying fines allowed under state law. The $1.4 trillion figure was disclosed by Meta in a legal response to the states’ request on how damages should be calculated.
Meta has rejected the estimate as legally unfounded. “A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement,” the company’s lawyers wrote in the court filing, as quoted by Reuters.
Mark Zuckerberg’s firm also called the plaintiffs’ “outlandish calculations” baseless and vowed to continue fighting the lawsuit.
A California Attorney General’s Office spokesperson defended the case, saying it alleges that Meta “has prioritized profits over the safety of kids and fueled the mental health crisis we see impacting a generation of American children.” The office said it looked forward to “holding Meta fully accountable.”
Meta is also facing lawsuits from 29 other states that are not part of the $1.4 trillion penalty claim. Most accuse the company of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting children’s data without parental consent. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will hear those claims alongside the four-state case in August, while a separate lawsuit brought by another 14 states is scheduled for February 2027.
The case is one of thousands of lawsuits filed against Meta and other social media companies, including TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of deliberately designing addictive features for children and teenagers. In March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent in a separate case involving products alleged to have harmed young users.
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