Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a total of $942 million in New Mexico after a judge imposed a $567 million abatement award on top of a $375 million civil penalty issued earlier in a case over harms to young people tied to Facebook and Instagram. Judge Bryan Biedscheid also directed Meta to make platform changes for users in New Mexico, including stricter age verification, a 90-hour monthly limit for users under 18, limits on overnight and school-hour push notifications, parental consent for public like counts on a child’s post, a ban on sexualized chatbot interactions with minors and blurred treatment of images suspected of containing nudity. Biedscheid found that Meta created a public nuisance by designing its platforms in ways that addicted young users and failed to adequately protect them from sexual exploitation, while rejecting some state requests involving algorithm changes, infinite scroll and autoplay. Meta said the claims misrepresented the facts and that it will appeal. The decision does not directly affect other cases, but New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez called it a blueprint for governments seeking court-ordered changes to social media platforms as broader youth-safety litigation against Meta continues.