Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, agreed to settle a wide-ranging social media addiction lawsuit with California and a number of other states.
The victims represented four generations of the blended family, ranging from a great-grandmother in her 90s who used a wheelchair to a 7-year-old girl.
Unlikely coalitions worry about dwindling farmland, declining water and rising electricity bills, while small towns become nodes in a national network of computing warehouses.