Meta calls for legal sanctions against states in child damage case

Metaplatforms Inc. has asked a federal court to impose sanctions on a dozen states, including California and New York, for failing to submit documents in a multi-state lawsuit alleging the social media giant harms children.

Fourteen of the 26 states suing Meta for social media addiction and child data privacy violations used “delay tactics” during the discovery phase of the lawsuit, the company argued in a sanctions motion filed Monday in the U.S. District Court. North. District of California.

The sanction request comes a month after Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers threatened to cling…