Meta to See $40 Billion Civil Penalty Request From Kentucky (1)

The Kentucky Attorney General’s office said it will ask for up to $40 billion from Meta Platforms Inc. in a sweeping lawsuit brought by a coalition of state AGs alleging the social media company has addicted and harmed children.

Kentucky’s civil penalties request, which ranged between $38 billion and $40 billion, was disclosed at a Wednesday hearing in federal court in Oakland, California, ahead of a trial scheduled for August.

The penalty total came at the request US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who asked that all the states AGs, led by California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, send her ...