Meta Platforms reached multibillion-dollar agreements with state authorities Wednesday that would place its treatment of young Facebook and Instagram users under judicially enforceable limits, resolving claims under state consumer-protection laws and federal child-privacy law.

The principal agreement, reached with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three US territories, provides for payments of up to $17.1 billion. Texas separately announced a settlement exceeding $1 billion, bringing Meta’s broader agreements with state and territorial authorities to roughly $18 billion.

The proposed consent judgment would end litigation in which state attorneys general accused Meta of using platform features that encouraged excessive use among children and teenagers, misleading the public about associated risks, and collecting information from children under 13 in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

The agreement would impose legally binding restrictions on Meta rather than leaving the changes to company policy. Teen users would generally face a two-hour combined daily limit on Facebook and Instagram, a midnight-to-6 AM access restriction, limits on notifications during school and nighttime hours, stronger age checks, and greater parental control. Meta would also have to offer teens a non-personalized feed option, conceal like counts by default, and restrict certain appearance-altering filters.

Compliance would be reviewed by an independent auditor with access to relevant nonprivileged company data, systems, records, and personnel. The auditor would report to a bipartisan committee of state attorneys general, with public summaries of its findings, while the courts entering the consent judgments would retain authority to enforce or modify them. Most obligations would remain in force for 10 years.

The settlement limits that enforcement power to the participating governments and courts; it creates no new right for private parties to sue over violations of the agreement. It does not, however, release claims brought independently by individuals, schools, school districts, or other government entities, and expressly states that it does not establish a legal standard of care outside participating jurisdictions.

The agreement follows a June ruling by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejecting Meta’s attempt to dispose of the states’ claims before trial. Rogers found factual disputes over alleged deception, harmful platform design, and Meta’s knowledge of under-13 users, while ruling that Meta had not complied with COPPA’s parental-notice and consent requirements if the statute applied.

Meta does not admit wrongdoing under the settlement. The proposed federal consent judgment remains subject to Rogers’ approval.