Senators hail court victory against Meta amid state pre-emption fight with White House

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) celebrated Meta’s defeat in court over child safety issues as a signal for lawmakers to support their Kids Online Safety Act -- legislation at the center of competing proposals for establishing a federal standard to uniformly govern artificial intelligence across the U.S.

Meta faced consecutive losses -- in New Mexico on March 24 and in California on March 25 -- in cases that brought charges related to the company’s addictive...