Meta lobbies U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm lawsuits

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is pressing California lawmakers to carve out an exemption from a bill that would sharply increase financial penalties for companies found liable in child-harm cases, according to a Friday report from POLITICO. The post Meta Lobbies for Exemption From Child-Harm Penalties: Report first appeared on Mediaite.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has reportedly been lobbying Congress to include provisions granting legal immunity from child-harm claims in proposed legislation, as the company confronts thousands of social media addiction lawsuits from young users and their families. The post Report: Meta Seeks Congressional Protection from Child Safety Lawsuits appeared first on Breitbart.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to children. Meta and Google's YouTube face a combined $6 million in damages after they lost the first case at trial early this year. While legislators have given no indication of adopting the language, the lobbying effort shows the kind of legal protections Meta is seeking amid the biggest attempt to regulate online platforms in the U.S. since the 1990s. Meta has reportedly proposed the language in exchange for dropping its opposition to KOSA. Under the law, platforms would be required to mitigate harms to minors tied to features such as infinite scrolling, notifications, and appearance-altering filters. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Meta is asking Congress for something it cannot win in court: protection from the lawsuits that accuse its products of harming children. The company has been lobbying lawmakers for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to platforms such as Instagram, according to people familiar with the effort, as it faces thousands of suits from young […] This story continues at The Next Web

June 18 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms has lobbied the US Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.