New Mexico lays out remedy trial case for Meta age-verification, compliance monitor | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
By Mike Swift ( May 5, 2026, 23:01 GMT | Insight) -- Lawyers for New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez told a judge Tuesday that Meta Platforms should be required to enable age-verification measures with 99 percent accuracy to keep children under age 13 off its apps, as they began to make the case for a court-appointed compliance monitor and a 90-hour monthly cap on the use of Facebook and Instagram for New Mexico teens.Lawyers for the state of New Mexico began building their unprecedented case Tuesday to force Meta Platforms to use highly accurate age-verification technology to keep children off Facebook and Instagram, and to pay $3.7 billion to monitor Meta’s practices and provide mental health services to people harmed by its apps....
