settlement
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The settlement doesn’t directly apply to YouTube, TikTok, or any other platform, but it does give litigants a blueprint for how to pressure those platforms using a similar playbook.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The company agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 state attorneys general, bringing an end to a federal trial over social media’s harm to teenagers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
While Bonta called the settlement amount “historically high,” he said the major focus is on the changes that Meta agreed to make to its platforms so they’re safer for children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The settlement could take the pressure off Congress to design broader regulations that might subject Meta and its competitors to even tougher restrictions.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
In January 1919, Allied statesmen met near Paris to discuss a final peace settlement.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Two individual plaintiffs recently dropped their cases before they reached trial without receiving financial settlements from Meta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Last year, the law raked in more than $6.8 billion in settlements and judgments, a single-year record for the Justice Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In recent years, Harry has sued three different UK newspapers, becoming the first senior royal in over a century to enter the witness box as he won settlements from two.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The amount the city pays each year in settlements and jury verdicts has skyrocketed, from $64 million about a decade ago to $289 million last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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