An industrywide call for social media safety for kids

Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. Meta has settled a lawsuit agreeing to pay up to $18 billion and implement new restrictions designed to protect kids and teens. Plus, as the world continues to mourn Dolly Parton, I texted with correspondent and anchor Joe Fryer, who shares the last time he interviewed her — right before the Covid shutdown. Let’s get into it. Meta agreed today to make changes to how children and teenagers interact with Facebook and Instagram. As part of a landmark settlement in a social media addiction case, the tech behemoth pledged to impose daily limits on use by teens and enhance its age verification measures, among other steps.