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Meta’s billion-dollar court defeat · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Meta has been ordered to establish
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  Speaker 1: a multimillion dollar fund to reverse harm to young people
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  Speaker 1: who use its products, including Facebook and Instagram. A judge
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  Speaker 1: in the US state of New Mexico made the order
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  Speaker 1: after a jury found the tech giant failed to protect
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  Speaker 1: young people online. Meta will also be forced to pay
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  Speaker 1: hefty civil penalties, taking the total amount to more than
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  Speaker 1: one point three billion Australian dollars, and an act a
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  Speaker 1: raft of safety features on its products. Metas profits took
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  Speaker 1: a big hit in the past financial quarter due to
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  Speaker 1: already hefty legal bills and mass staff layoffs. Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: is preparing for an escalation in hostilities by Iranian proxy
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  Speaker 1: militias by signing a new defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: The agreement will be signed in the Saudi Arabian city
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  Speaker 1: of Jeddah on Friday. It comes a midi faltering negotiations
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  Speaker 1: of a ceasefire deal between Iran and the US, and
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  Speaker 1: as the Gulf States are increasingly drawn into the conflict,
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  Speaker 1: which began when the US and Israel struck Iran in
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  Speaker 1: late February. Thousands of travelers were stranded at Sydney Airport
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  Speaker 1: on Friday due to staff shortages in air traffic control.
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  Speaker 1: Some people waited up to ninety minutes to disembark from planes,
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  Speaker 1: while departures were pushed back by several hours. Quantus, Quantuslink, Jetstar,
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  Speaker 1: Rex and Virgin Australia said as many as one hundred
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  Speaker 1: flights were caught up in the chaos, with some airlines
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  Speaker 1: bussing water and snacks to aircraft stuck on the tarmac.
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  Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
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