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Australia is considering a local action against Meta, driven by a grieving mother and a law firm that want to test whether the $16.7 billion US settlement will have an impact outside the United States.

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Ottawa is dissecting a settlement that closes the case without a judgment on the merits, even before Mark Zuckerberg is heard by the Oakland jury.

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Beijing views the Meta agreement as a list of technical measures imposed on the product rather than a moral judgment on the company, focusing on usage limits and age verification.

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Berlin is assessing the gap between the protections promised to American teenagers and those that Brussels can still secure for European children.

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France is gauging this California regulation against its own censored social media law, and is watching to see if Brussels will get from Meta what the US capital has just obtained.

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New Delhi notes that the new protections will, for now, be limited to US users — a clause that directly affects one of Instagram and Facebook's largest global markets.

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Rome is assessing the actual impact of the US agreement: the European Commission is demanding that Meta provide the same protections for children on the continent, but no mechanism makes the regulation automatically applicable outside of the United States.

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Nigeria's capital Abuja is less focused on the final amount of the Meta agreement - reportedly ranging from $16.68 to $18 billion according to cited sources - than on the mechanical details of the new restrictions imposed on Instagram and Facebook for teenagers.

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Pakistan's capital notes a US court settlement with fluctuating amounts (ranging from $16.68 to $18 billion) that closes a lawsuit without acknowledged fault, before its extension beyond the United States for now surpasses the sole European case.

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London is weighing what the American agreement changes, or doesn't change, for its own teenagers, between existing regulation and pressure to extend it to the UK.

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The United States government is examining a $16.7 to $18 billion agreement that settles a lawsuit without Meta admitting any wrongdoing, leaving Texas and Florida out of the compromise and thousands of individual complaints pending.

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Pretoria views the Meta agreement as the opening of a global front rather than the closure of a US case, echoing reactions from Canberra to Brussels more than the verdict itself.

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