US State Attorneys General

Fifty-one state and territory attorneys general settled claims that Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to be addictive for minors, knowingly exposed young users to mental-health harm, and misled the public about how safe its platforms were. Meta will pay a guaranteed $12.1B over ten years, rising to $17.1B if other major social platforms agree to adopt the same safeguards.

All 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, settled antitrust claims over Play Store billing restrictions and deals that limited rival app stores. Of the total, $630M is for a consumer fund and $70M for the states. A federal court gave final approval in August 2026.

Forty US states settled claims that Google misled users into believing location tracking was off while it kept collecting location data through other settings such as Web & App Activity. It was the largest multistate privacy settlement at the time.

Thirty-four US states settled claims over the hidden iPhone throttling, separate from the consumer class action.