Meta must cap teen Instagram and Facebook use at 90 hours a month – Notebookcheck

ⓘ Towfiqu barbhuiya / Pexels Symbolic image: between 10 pm and 7 am, Meta may no longer send push notifications to minors. A New Mexico court has fined Meta $567 million and ordered changes to Facebook and Instagram. Accounts belonging to users under 18 get a hard cap of 90 hours a month across both apps, no push notifications overnight, and hidden like counts. The ruling also draws a line around Meta’s AI chatbots. A district court in Santa Fe fined Meta $567 million on 6 August and imposed a list of conditions on Facebook and Instagram that are meant to run for five years. Together with the $375 million penalty a jury handed down in March, Meta now owes $942 million. Set against a 2025 corporate profit of roughly $60 billion that is not much, and the share price slipped less than half a percent in after-hours trading. What changes in the product is the more interesting part. 90 hours a month, and silence after 10 pm Judge Bryan Biedscheid imposed a fixed usage cap. Accounts belonging to users under 18 may not be active for more than 90 hours a month, counted across Facebook and Instagram together. That
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