Was your teen harmed by a social media platform?
Families across the country are joining MDL 3047, alleging that Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube were negligently designed in ways that predictably harm minors. A free, confidential review can preserve your place and protect deadlines as the litigation develops.
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Speak with our legal team about whether your family may have a claim in the ongoing social media harm litigation (MDL 3047). Filing preserves your place and protects deadlines as the case develops; there is no public claim form and no automatic payment.
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- August 26, 2026 — Meta settles the states' case for up to $16.68 billion: mid-trial in Oakland, Meta agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68 billion to resolve claims brought by states that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about safety, and improperly collected children's data. Meta also agreed to nationwide teen safeguards — including daily usage limits and nighttime blocks — and denied wrongdoing. This settles the states' enforcement claims. It does not pay individual families, creates no claim form, and does not resolve individual injury cases in MDL 3047 or in state courts. Source: Reuters
- August 19, 2026 — Meta whistleblower testimony in states' trial: Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety engineer and Instagram consultant, testified that CEO Mark Zuckerberg ignored internal calls to prioritize child safety while Meta publicly promoted its safety practices. Béjar told jurors the company took a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to users under 13 and said, "I feel that you just cannot trust Mark Zuckerberg with kids." The testimony is in the 29-state attorney general trial against Meta, which is separate from the federal MDL 3047 docket. Read the blog post.
- August 2026 — New Mexico state case (separate from MDL 3047): a Santa Fe judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a public abatement fund on top of a $375 million jury penalty from March 2026, bringing the total to $942 million, plus injunctive changes for teen accounts. Meta says it will appeal. This state enforcement action is not the federal MDL, does not pay individual families, and is not a claim process.
- Federal MDL 3047: over 2,893 cases pending as of July 2026, with the first individual bellwether verdict ($6 million, KGM) upheld on appeal in June 2026 and a roughly $27 million school-district settlement in Breathitt County, Kentucky in May 2026. Those results apply to the parties in those specific cases only; there is currently no MDL-wide settlement or established per-person payout. The first federal attorney general bellwether trial began August 6, 2026.
Recent legal news only — not legal advice, and no prediction about any individual claim. No public claim form exists; individual families must file their own complaints through a law firm.
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