Meta Settled in Eight Days. Here's What It Actually Agreed To

Meta Settled in Eight Days. Here's What It Actually Agreed To

Eight days into a trial I told you would run six to eight weeks, Meta settled with the states.

Here is the sentence almost every headline dropped three words from: Meta agreed to pay at least $12.1 billion over ten years — that part is guaranteed — rising to $17.1 billion only if TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat adopt comparable terms. In exchange, five years of real product changes: a combined two-hour daily cap across Instagram and Facebook that only a parent can lift, mandatory pauses at 15, 60 and 90 minutes, feed access blocked midnight–6am, notifications silenced 10pm–7am, and no push notifications on school-year weekdays 8am–3pm.

And the part that matters most for tonight: none of it is in effect. The settlement is proposed and, in California's Attorney General's words, "remains subject to court approval through entry of a consent judgment." Plus the five things about this story already being reported wrong — including two different courts that keep getting mixed up.

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