Meta vs. New Mexico: Kid Safety vs. Profits

0:00It's April 30th. You're listening to Canada News today, AI-powered local news. Met us threatening to pull the plug on a social media platform in New Mexico, like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, over demands from state. Prosecutors to overhaul kids' safety features. Prosecutors want tighter age checks for kids under 13. Curves on addictive stuff, like infinite scroll, better privacy defaults, and more. Decide to stop exploitation and protect mental health. In a recent core filing, medical these changes impossible, especially hitting 99% accuracy on age verification, saying it had forced. A full shutdown for all 2.1 million residents in the state. That could cut off personal chats, family connections, and even business ads on their apps. New Mexico's Attorney General, Raúl Torres, fire back hard, saying social media worked fine before auto play, and endless feeds, and he won't ignore. Exploited kids just for add dollars.

1:01This is the first case hitting trial out of over 40 states suing meta for fueling a youth mental health crisis. Globally, countries are cracking down too, with bands for young teens or parent linked to counts, and meta-skips some small markets where costs. Outweigh benefits. Torres, up for re-election, insists the fixes are doable without killing the platforms. As this battle heats up in court, it spotlights the big clash between tech profits and kid protection, with New Mexico leading the charge on changes. That could ripple nationwide.