Explainer: What recent Meta and Google verdicts mean for social media safety

WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW MEXICO? Separately, a jury in New Mexico on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay$375 million after finding the company misled users about thesafety of Facebook and Instagram while enabling child sexualexploitation on those platforms in a lawsuit brought by thestate's attorney general. Recent jury verdicts in Californiaand New Mexico involving Meta Platforms and Alphabet'sGoogle are sharpening scrutiny of social mediacompanies as plaintiffs advance legal theories aimed at holdingplatforms liable ...