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Meta to pay up to $17 billion and implement sweeping child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook
(Updated Aug. 26, 2026, to add the consent judgment.)
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced today a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc., to end litigation alleging the company knowingly failed to protect children on Facebook and Instagram.
This is the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s.
Lawsuit seeks to block unconstitutional USPS rule that directs states to overhaul vote-by-mail procedures on an impossible timeline and risks disenfranchising eligible voters
Attorney General Nick Brown today co-led a coalition of 25 states in filing a lawsuit against the United States Postal Service (USPS) challenging its illegal attempt to claim authority to regulate mail-in voting.
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