{"id":156244,"date":"2026-08-18T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156244"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:12:21","slug":"meta-accused-of-targeting-children-to-boost-facebook-and-instagram-use-as-us-trial-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156244","title":{"rendered":"Meta accused of targeting children to boost Facebook and Instagram use, as US trial begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMeta Platforms intentionally sought to \u2060addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a lawyer for California said on Tuesday at the start of a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet.<br \/>\nA bipartisan group of 29 US states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how Meta does business.<br \/>\nFour lead states \u2013 California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey \u2013 accuse Meta of designing Facebook and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3364482\/meta-accused-targeting-children-boost-facebook-and-instagram-use-us-trial-begins?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMeta Platforms intentionally sought to \u2060addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a lawyer for California said on Tuesday at the start of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}