[News] Meta Paid $18 Billion to Leave the Section 230 Question Unanswered

Meta settled with 52 attorneys general eight days into trial, agreeing to rebuild its teen products and pay for a decade, and in doing so left untested the design-defect theory that got the case to a jury in the first place.

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