Meta’s litigation bill mounts; next legal hit could reach $6 billion
By Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift ( August 3, 2026, 23:52 GMT | Comment) -- Meta faces a potential $6 billion damages bill from a landmark privacy verdict over reproductive-health data collected from Flo app users, adding to mounting litigation costs already weighing on the company’s earnings.Meta’s stock plunged last week after it revealed on an earnings call that the $2.4 billion in legal costs it incurred from fending off a slew of youth-related addictive design trials in the US had driven up Meta’s quarterly expenses by 55 percent and helped drag down its second-quarter profit....
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