Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Meta will withhold roughly $5.3 billion of an $18 billion teen-safety settlement until TikTok and YouTube adopt a one-hour daily limit, night-mode, and age-verification measures and each contribute matching funds. The agreement, pending judicial approval, gives participating states about 70% of the total ($12.7 billion) and imposes two-hour daily limits, night-mode, school-mode, and non-algorithmic feeds for under-18 users on Instagram and Facebook, with parental overrides for certain controls.