By Mike Swift ( May 4, 2026, 23:29 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms and lawyers for the New Mexico attorney general's office on Monday began a three-week remedies trial, the second phase of a milestone trial whose first phase ended with a jury finding that Meta violated a state consumer protection and should pay a fine of $375 million. In the second phase of the trial, Judge Bryan Biedscheid will decide whether Meta should pay $3.7 billion for mental health services and other remedies for the harm found in Phase 1 of the trial, as well as making significant platform design changes to Facebook and Instagram.Meta Platforms told a New Mexico judge Monday that the state’s $3.7 billion request for mental health and other services, to abate harm a jury found this year was caused by Instagram and Facebook, is “overbroad, dangerous, and in conflict with other laws.”...
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