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Meta’s $18B settlement and new restrictions are vital — but it wasn’t them who put $1,000 phones in kids’ hands

Meta agreed to a record $18 billion settlement with nearly every US state over claims that its social-media platforms were deliberately designed to addict children and teenagers — and is being forced to build meaningful barriers between children and the products it has spent years carefully designing to keep them online. But parents remain responsible for what they put into their children’s hands.