Meta ordered to pay $375 million for New Mexico child safety law violation

Russian coverage stresses that Facebook and Instagram enabled child sexual exploitation while presenting themselves as safe platforms. It portrays the verdict as proof that US-based social networks have long ignored serious harms to minors while criticizing other countries’ internet controls. It suggests that Western governments and companies apply double standards by attacking foreign platforms while failing to protect children on their own services.

• •Facebook and Instagram allowed child sexual exploitation to occur on their platforms despite public safety claims.
• •The New Mexico verdict shows that US tech companies neglected children’s safety for years.
• •Western governments criticize other countries’ internet rules while their own platforms expose minors to predators.
• •The case reveals double standards in how Western countries judge foreign social networks compared with US-based ones.
• •US regulators only acted after widespread harm to children had already taken place on Meta’s platforms.