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All-In · 3 min · Sep 17, 2026

Meta agreed to cap teen use at two hours in sign-on states

Powell describes a deal with 52 attorneys general that limits under-18s to two hours on Meta’s platform in states that sign on. The app also shuts off at night, making the agreement a concrete change to product defaults.

Dina Powell McCormick

Dina Powell McCormick is president and vice chairwoman of Meta Platforms.

Leads Meta's external affairs and AI infrastructure strategy as a former Trump deputy security adviser.

  • Chamath Palihapitiya, Host · Founder & CEO, Social Capital

    Led Facebook's growth team; his firm backed Slack and AI chipmaker Groq.

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    Early Uber angel; sold Weblogs Inc. to AOL; hosts This Week in Startups.

  • David Sacks, Host · Co-founder & partner, Craft Ventures

    PayPal's first COO, founded Yammer; White House AI & crypto czar 2025–26.

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    Founded The Climate Corporation, sold to Monsanto for about $1.1B in 2013.

About this segment

Powell describes a deal with 52 attorneys general that limits under-18s to two hours on Meta’s platform in states that sign on. The app also shuts off at night, making the agreement a concrete change to product defaults.

From “Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta’s Future”, Sep 17, 2026. Watch the full episode

“We agreed that if your state signed on with us that children under 18, not 16, can only be on our platform for two hours a day.”
Dina Powell McCormickat 29:02 · All-In29:02

Takeaways

  1. The deal covers children under 18 in states that sign on.
  2. Meta’s platform limit is two hours daily, with a nighttime shutoff.
  3. A one-hour limit depends on YouTube, TikTok and Snap joining.

In this episode

Full episode
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  2. 11:46Meta's data center deal pays for power and uses less water5:53
  3. 21:00A paid training path is filling data center trade jobs5:18

  4. 27:34Meta agreed to cap teen use at two hours in sign-on states3:03

  5. 41:19Meta argues broad AI access can make society more stable2:22Up next
  6. 35:25Blind veterans helped shape accessibility features for Meta glasses4:34
  7. 33:11Time-based AI rewards can drive app engagement loops2:16

Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

  1. 27:40

    The real, I think, challenge a lot of us have with Facebook as an organization, and these are amazing, the videos are super inspiring and well produced, but you guys really did damage, significant damage to children. You knew that these products were too addicting, and the philosophy of the company From the beginning when Shalmoth was there, hey, move fast, break things, let's go super fast. My sincere question is, how has the culture changed inside of Facebook?

  2. 28:08

    And you're making a new series of potentially more addicting products with character-based AI companions, with Muse as a product. So I'm curious, what's changed in the organization and what did you learn from that record-setting find and something that is you could have done a lot better on? um well i totally disagree with basically every single premise in your question i'm not gonna let that billion dollar settlement says otherwise do i get to speak or are you done with your 10 minute question um okay i totally disagree with the premise of that i've only been there eight months i was on the board for a year and i can tell you because i work with these people every day they are really really focused on ensuring that parents are empowered, teens are supported, and I couldn't be actually more proud of the agreement that we just

  3. 28:59

    made. We made it with 52 bipartisan attorneys general across the United States and the territories. We are now setting industry standards. We agreed that if your state signed on with us that children under 18, not 16, can only be on our platform for two hours a day. The app shuts off after that, and it completely shuts off at night. There are no notifications during the school day at all of any kind. And frankly, parents have way more supervision now. Many, many ways that they can decide what their kids are on, how long they're on, and what they're seeing. And I think that we're proud of that because if others in our peer group joined, this could be pretty historic and game-changing. And Jason, I'm a mom of six daughters, so this is really personal to me. I watch them grow up in this generation. And I feel that, you know, we really can actually find a way

  4. 29:53

    to come together. The reason your numbers were wrong on the settlement is because we actually agreed to give an additional $5 billion and to go down to only one hour of use on our platform if YouTube, TikTok, and Snap join us. Because as we know, as we know, people leave one set of apps and go to another. But wouldn't it be pretty amazing in America, if children under 18 could only be on apps for an hour a day, shut off at night, and I don't, I just think that's 100% yes. Thank you.

  5. 30:27

    Do you think it should be universal, Chamath, or do you think it should be controlled by the parent? Like, give the parent basic...