New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, outside court in Los Angeles in February. Photograph: Jill Connelly/Getty Images

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms.

The Thursday ruling comes as a part of the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. At the time, a jury found that the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms, and imposed the maximum penalty: a $375m fine.