Meta agrees to pay $17.1 billion and impose sweeping restrictions on teen social media use—including two-hour daily limits, no likes counts, and beauty filters removed—after losing court battles over addictive technology. This landmark settlement, the largest by state attorneys general since tobacco, signals a turning point in tech accountability driven by public outcry rather than Congressional action. Meta lost multiple trials because plaintiffs successfully argued the case was about defective technology, not speech, circumventing Section 230 legal protections the company had relied on for decades.