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Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
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Ars Technica
A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Meta to pay $567 million for a fund that would alleviate the “public nuisance” created by its social media services.
The order to pay for youth mental health care is in addition to $375 million in civil penalties that a jury ordered Meta to pay earlier in the same case.
The jury trial was just phase 1 of the case involving Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
“The Phase 1 jury trial considered the State’s Unfair Practices Act claims and resulting civil penalties.
Biedscheid concluded that “Meta is a cause of and has substantially contributed to a public nuisance in New Mexico and is required to abate that public nuisance.”