States Now Have to Decide How to Spend Meta’s Settlement Billions

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October 13, 2026
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The New York Times
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“The revelations of litigation change culture,” said Nora Freeman Engstrom, a Stanford law professor who has written about the legacy of the tobacco settlement. “They change how we think about products, and they change how we interact with products.”

“Meta is settling with the states,” Ms. Engstrom said, “but it’s nowhere near done with its public liability.”

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