Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
Meta is asking Congress for something it cannot win in court: protection from the lawsuits that accuse its products of harming children.
The company has been lobbying lawmakers for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to platforms such as Instagram, according to people familiar with the effort, as it faces thousands of suits from young users and their families.
The vehicle Meta is reportedly eyeing is the Kids Online Safety Act, the child-safety bill under consideration in the Senate. The provision Meta is said to favour would shield online platforms from liability over harms to children, and if written into KOSA and passed, it could undercut the thousands of cases now working through the courts.
It would, in effect, convert a child-safety bill into a liability shield, an outcome that sits awkwardly with the legislation’s stated purpose.
The legal backdrop explains the urgency. Meta is contending with more than 2,000...
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