Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Bellwether / Tag-AlongPeople of the State of California, et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (multistate attorneys general case)
Current Status
- Settled. $11.7B is guaranteed, in ten annual installments to 47 states, D.C. and 3 territories, alongside a $75M cost fund and $459M for Cambridge Analytica claims. A further $5.0B is contingent on Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting comparable teen time limits and paying comparable sums — forfeited to Meta if they never do. Reported total: $17.1B. - Ended mid-trial. Trial ran 8/18–8/26/2026; on the final day the Court suspended it, vacated it and discharged the advisory jury without a verdict, entering the parties' consent judgment instead. No finding was made on the merits, and Meta admits no liability. - For ten years Meta must set daily time limits and nighttime blocks on teen accounts, strengthen age assurance, and add parental supervision tools. The Court keeps jurisdiction to enforce. - This judgment binds the 29 states that were plaintiffs here; Meta entered parallel judgments with the rest. Three states stayed out: Florida, heading to its own trial; New Mexico, which had already won a $942M judgment; and Texas, never part of this coalition, which settled separately the same day for over $1B on comparable injunctive terms.
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Timeline (7)
— Multistate AG complaint filed — MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedThe state attorneys general file their multistate complaint against Meta directly in N.D. Cal. as 4:23-cv-05448, coordinated within MDL 3047.
— Amended complaint filed — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Source type not recordedThe state attorneys general file their Amended Complaint for Injunctive and Other Relief, striking the claims of Georgia, Michigan, Missouri and North Dakota, which had dismissed, and the state-law claims of seven more states that chose to proceed on COPPA alone, leaving a coalition of 29.
— Summary judgment ruling clears path to trial — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedCourt denies Meta's motion for summary judgment and grants in part the State AGs' cross-motion for partial summary judgment on COPPA claims, sending the case to the 8/18/2026 trial.
— Ninth Circuit dismisses 2024 appeals — MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedNinth Circuit dismisses the appeals and cross-appeals for lack of jurisdiction, holding that Section 230 provides a defense to liability rather than immunity from suit.
— Jury selection — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedEight-person advisory jury selected; the Court sat 4 hours 58 minutes for jury selection.
— Trial began — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedOpening statements in Oakland before Judge Gonzalez Rogers.
— $17.1B consent judgment entered — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Source type not recordedCourt enters a consent judgment resolving the 29 plaintiff states' claims, with no admission of liability and obligations running ten years; Meta enters parallel consent judgments with attorneys general elsewhere in the United States.