Every legal and factual claim on this site traces to a source. These are the ledgers where that tracing lives: one per lawsuit, per hearing, and per regulatory proceeding, each claim tagged by the strength of its evidence, published in full so the work is auditable. The lawsuit case files and the hearings hub are the readable narratives; these are the raw record behind them.
the lawsuits
One evidence ledger per U.S. case, tiered against the court record and official releases.
- MDL 3047 (the federal case)Thousands of youth-harm suits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap sit in one federal court. The states' trial against Meta ended in a consent judgment.
- K.G.M. and the California bellwethersCalifornia's first test verdict hit Meta and Google for $6 million over addictive app design; both are appealing, and the second test case never reached a jury.
- State of New Mexico v. MetaNew Mexico won $942 million from Meta: a $375M jury verdict plus a $567M abatement fund, with a five-year order on minors' accounts but no algorithm relief.
- State of Tennessee v. MetaTennessee tried Meta before a Nashville jury over Instagram's "Time Spent" tools, until the August 2026 multistate settlement ended the trial mid-evidence.
- Bits of Freedom v. Meta (Netherlands)A Dutch court ordered Meta to keep a user's non-profiled feed setting when they close and reopen Facebook or Instagram, on penalty of 100,000 euro a day.
the regulators
Not a lawsuit: a European Commission enforcement process under the Digital Services Act, where a regulator tested the platforms' own safety controls and wrote down how they performed. Preliminary findings only, and no fine has been imposed.
- The FTC control-integrity recordThe FTC already treats a cancel button that does not cancel as illegal. Its general rule saying so was vacated on procedure six days before it took effect.
- The EU DSA proceedingsFour EU preliminary findings say Meta's and TikTok's screen-time tools are too easy to dismiss and their parental controls only work for expert parents.
the hearings
One ledger per hearing, each with the full, verbatim, attributed quote-bank (not just the curated selection on the hub). Two are flagged tier-downs, built from written testimony until the official transcript publishes.
- Nov 2023: the Bejar hearingIn 2023 former Meta engineer Arturo Bejar told the Senate the company measured the harm to kids, knew the numbers, and repeatedly chose not to act.
- Jan 2024: the five-CEO hearingIn 2024 five social-media CEOs faced the Senate on child safety; senators pressed on opt-out defaults, unmeasured tools, and the Section 230 liability shield.
- May 2026: the verdicts hearingtier-downIn 2026 lawyer Rachel Lanier showed the Senate internal Meta and Google documents: an addiction goal, and an under-13 rule called indefensible inside Meta.
- Dec 2025: the legislative hearingtier-downIn 2025 a House hearing weighed child-safety bills like KOSA; four witnesses agreed kids are harmed but split on design mandates, privacy law, and free speech.