Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US
Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks.
Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it. They allege that Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to drive compulsive use by children, then misled the public about the risks.
Almost every outlet covering the Meta social media trial is reporting two things about it. Both need correcting.
The $1.4 trillion figure belongs to Meta
Nearly everyone leads on $1.4tn. That number did not come from the states. Meta’s own lawyers produced it, calculating the theoretical maximum if every alleged violation drew the full statutory penalty of $20,000.
We flagged this in July, when Meta said four states wanted $1.4tn. Since then the states have put their own figure on the record.
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