Victoria Hinks holds a locket with a picture of her 16-year old daughter Alexandra, who she believes committed suicide after being addicted to social media, while speaking to the press following news of a settlement in the Meta trial, outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Oakland, California, on August 26, 2026. Meta agreed to pay US states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing on Wednesday that ends a landmark trial underway in California. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court, would resolve claims by a coalition of 29 US states that Meta deliberately engineered its platforms to hook young users, misled the public about the risks and unlawfully collected data from children under 13. (Photo by Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images)