Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

<figure> <img alt="Photo of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the justice scale." 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_D.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have a false positive rate no higher than 10 percent for users aged 16 to 17, and 3 percent for users aged 13 to 15. The company also agreed to give teens the option to turn off personalized feeds, meaning that they won't be shown content based on Meta's recommendation algorithm, and Meta will suspend push notificati …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/985032/meta-state-ag-kids-online-safety-settlement">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>