{"id":43233,"date":"2026-08-20T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43233"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:06:27","slug":"meta-faces-major-legal-challenge-in-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/meta-faces-major-legal-challenge-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces major legal challenge in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, is facing a major legal challenge in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Twenty-nine states accuse the company of deliberately designing its platforms to keep children engaged, with potentially harmful consequences, in pursuit of profit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The states are seeking potentially billions of Dollars in penalties, as well as changes to how Meta operates its platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">However, the company Meta is denying the allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33825,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-43233","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Meta is facing a major legal challenge","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43234,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43233\/revisions\/43234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}