Meta settled with 48 states over claims it made Instagram and Facebook addictive and harmed kids' mental health, a win for parents and a costly hit for the company.

• Meta must add hard daily time limits, block access from midnight to 6 a.m., and shut off notifications during school hours.
• The company also has to build stronger age checks, safer content controls, easier parental controls, and limits on beauty filters and social comparison features.
• Independent auditors will check whether Meta actually follows through.
• Hawaii gets up to $76 million, which advocates want spent on youth mental health programs and on enforcing child protection laws, including a new one covering AI chatbots.
• Parents and therapists welcome the changes but doubt time limits alone will fix kids' mental health, since children lack the impulse control to resist endless scrolling.

Outlook: Pressure now shifts to YouTube and other platforms to adopt similar rules, while Hawaii decides how to spend the money.