Regulation by consent judgment: what a settlement installs that a statute could not
Advertising Your Own Punishment
In August 2026 a federal court entered a consent judgment binding Meta to age-assurance terms, and within days Meta was buying newspaper advertisements urging competitors to accept them. This brief takes the instrument rather than the payment as its subject: what a negotiated judgment installs that legislation did not, and what its data and error-rate terms require. Built from the entered judgment, the campaign record and a second platform's settlement a month later. For counsel tracking identity-verification obligations.
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