Meta Could Pull Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp From New Mexico Over Child-Safety Demands
TL;DR
In the remedies phase of New Mexico's landmark child-safety suit, Meta says the state’s proposed reforms—age verification, safer algorithms and safeguards, warnings, and court oversight—could lead to a withdrawal of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp from the state, arguing many measures are technologically infeasible while the state pursues a court-ordered fix.
- Meta threatens to shut down social networks in New Mexico over child safety court case The Guardian
- Attorney general says Meta issues threat to shut down products in New Mexico KOAT
- New Mexico attorney general says Meta is threatening to pull platforms from state The Hill
- Meta says it could withdraw Facebook and Instagram from New Mexico pending bench trial’s outcome Source New Mexico
- Meta Says It May Withdraw Its Apps From New Mexico If Judge Agrees To The State's Demands Engadget
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