Meta will be happy with its $18bn US settlement – but the costs of child online safety will keep rising for big tech | Chris Stokel-Walker
THE SO WHAT
An $18B child-safety settlement, even without admission of liability, resets the scale of regulatory and legal exposure for consumer platforms. Any product touching minors now needs safety, age assurance, and content controls modeled as core COGS and roadmap constraints, not as compliance afterthoughts.
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