Meta settlement could reshape how social media companies treat young users

NPR | By Henry Larson,

Joel Rose, Janaya Williams

Published August 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM EDT

Meta agreed to billions in payments and new protections for kids. Harvard Law's Leah Plunkett looks at what it could mean for Meta's competitors and for AI companies.

Henry Larson

Joel Rose

Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.

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Janaya Williams

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