New Mexico Prosecutors Seek Algorithm Changes from Meta in Child Safety Trial

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New Mexico Prosecutors Seek Algorithm Changes from Meta in Child Safety Trial
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  1. SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico state prosecutors are seeking fundamental changes to Meta’s social media apps and algorithms to safeguard children in the second phase of a landmark trial on allegations that platforms such as Instagram have created a public safety hazard.

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    Thanks for signing up! New Mexico prosecutors are expected to argue that Meta should enact several changes to protect its young users from harm, including an effective age verification process for accounts and recommendation algorithms that prioritize user safety over boosting how much time they spend on the apps.

    Fortune

    Meta’s defense A Meta spokesperson pushed back on both the scope of the demands and the strategy behind the upcoming case: “The New Mexico Attorney General’s focus on a single platform is a misguided strategy that ignores the hundreds of other apps teens use daily. Rather than providing comprehensive protections, the state’s proposed mandates infringe on parental rights and stifle free expression for all New Mexicans. Regardless, we remain committed to providing safe, age-appropriate experiences and have already launched many of the protections the state seeks, including 13 safety measures this past year.”

    CNBC

    Meta is back in a New Mexico courthouse on Monday as part of an ongoing child safety case that could determine whether the company is considered a public nuisance and must spend potentially billions of dollars to fix its products.

    Financial Times

    Tech giant faces lawsuit from five large groups over its use of copyrighted works to train Llama AI models

  2. “Meta is showing the world how little it cares about child safety,” Torrez said Thursday. “Meta’s refusal to follow the laws that protect our kids tells you everything you need to know about this company and the character of its leaders.”

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    “For years the company has rewritten its own rules, redesigned its products, and even bent to the demands of dictators to preserve market access,” Torrez added. “Meta simply refuses to place the safety of children ahead of engagement, advertising revenue, and profit.”

  3. A Meta spokesperson said the state’s demands are “technically impractical, impossible for any company to meet and disregard the realities of the internet.”

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    A Meta spokesperson said in a statement that New Mexico's demands are "technically impractical, impossible for any company to meet and disregard the realities of the internet."

  4. Meta recently lost a landmark case in Los Angeles state court. REUTERS Meta argues that Mark Zuckerberg should only have to testify in person once. Getty Images

  5. A Los Angeles jury separately found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children, validating long-standing concerns about dangers of social media.

  6. That trial, involving hundreds of school districts, is expected to commence on June 15. Plaintiff attorneys will likely be monitoring the New Mexico trial because both cases involve state public nuisance allegations, said Adam Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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    Meta also faces a wave of litigation from school districts, state attorneys general and individuals in California federal court across multiple trials, the first of which is slated to begin in June.

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  1. 01 Bloomberg

    Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas, that could total roughly $13 billion, underscoring Big Tech’s growing reliance on debt to bankroll the infrastructure behind the AI boom.

  2. 02 New York Post Business

    “I am a judge, I am not a legislator, I am not a regulator,” Biedscheid said as the second phase began on Monday.

  3. 03 Washington Times Business

    Opening statements began Monday in the three-week bench trial to decide whether the platforms of Meta, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, pose a public nuisance under state law.

  4. 04 CNBC

    The social media company lost the first round of the trial centering on claims brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez that it failed to safeguard children on its apps from sexual predators and misled the public about alleged harms from use of apps like Instagram and Facebook.

  5. 05 Fortune

    Ahead of the bench trial that begins May 4, Meta responded to Torrez’s statement on Thursday.

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Original Articles (9)

Center Meta and Zuckerberg sued by publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement — Financial Times
Center Meta Taps Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for El Paso Data Center Deal — Bloomberg
Lean Right New Mexico’s proposed kids safety fixes for Instagram, Facebook may go too far, judge warns — New York Post Business
Lean Right New Mexico seeks child safety restrictions on Meta apps and algorithms in trial's 2nd phase — Washington Times Business
Center Meta's public nuisance case in New Mexico has billion-dollar consequences — CNBC
Lean Right Mark Zuckerberg is trying to wiggle out of testifying in person at a slew of social media trials — New York Post Business
Lean Right Meta raises raises specter of shutting down service to New Mexico in legal clash over child safety — Washington Times Business
Lean Left Meta’s threat to quit New Mexico ‘is showing the world how little it cares about child safety,’ AG says — Fortune
Lean Right Meta threatens to shut down Instagram, Facebook in New Mexico if judge orders ‘impractical’ kids protections — New York Post Business