Meta is threatening to pull its apps from New Mexico if it has to make “technologically impractical” changes.

Meta says she may have to pull Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp out of New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a set of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve.

after Winning the $375 million jury prize Against Meta In a trial that alleges the company misled users in the state about the safety of its products, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is asking the state court to order sweeping changes to the platforms. Among he asks It bans end-to-end encryption for minors, implements age verification, and detects 99 percent of new child sexual abuse material uploaded to its services.

“Basically, many of the orders are so vague or hopelessly vague that enforcing them would violate Meta’s due process rights to know what violates the injunction and what does not,” Meta says in a court filing. It describes many of the requests as “technologically or practically not feasible” and says it will need to create New Mexico-specific applications to comply with them. “Therefore, granting this onerous relief could force Meta to withdraw Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp entirely from the country as the only possible means of compliance.”

Examples of impossible tasks proposed by the AG, according to Meta, include mandates that achieve a 99 percent accuracy rate for detecting new CSAM and denying underage accounts. Regardless of the state’s minimum threshold for detecting CSAM, the company wrote in the filing, “Meta will never be able to prove that the system meets this standard, because performing the calculation would require that Meta detect 100% of CSAM to use as a denominator.” Demanding a certain level of rigor in detection “seems to be based on the false premise that any system or tool can rid any social app or website with billions of users of all forms of abuse or all tools of child sexual abuse.” “Sexual assault weapons are an Internet-wide problem and not unique to Meta platforms, and no social app or website has achieved zero child sexual assault material, as many state witnesses have acknowledged,” Meta adds.

It also claims that replacing Meta’s current age estimation methods — which include asking for users’ birthdays when they sign up, building in protections in case users try to change their age, and using models that predict age — with more difficult methods like identity uploads and facial scans of large populations could be less accurate. This is because, according to Meta, this would likely result in efforts to circumvent the system, or work differently in real-world conditions than it did in test cases. Additionally, Meta believes that the federal Children’s Privacy Act would prevent it from retaining data necessary to profile users under the age of 13 in the state.

Torrez says in a statement that Meta’s resistance to the proposed changes simply shows her lack of desire. “Meta’s refusal to follow the laws that protect our children tells you everything you need to know about this company and the character of its leaders,” Torrez says. “We know that Meta has the power to make these changes. For many years, the company has rewritten its own rules, redesigned its products, and even bowed to the demands of tyrants to maintain market access. It is not about technological ability. Meta simply refuses to put children’s safety before engagement, ad revenue, and profits.”

Meta claims modern features such as Teen accounts It does address many of New Mexico’s concerns, proposing more modest changes to amend age security models and fund state law enforcement training related to Internet crimes against children for a limited period.

“By targeting one platform, the state is ignoring hundreds of other apps that teens use, leaving parents without the comprehensive support they truly deserve,” Meta spokesman Chris Sgro said in a statement.

Torrez warns that even if Meta “takes the ball and leaves the state,” she may soon find fewer places to go in the United States. In a call with reporters on Thursday, Torrez pointed this out Dozens of AG All parts of the country are taking similar measures against social media companies. “It seems to me like a short-sighted and temporary attempt to deflect and delay the inevitable,” he says. “And it will be better for them, and it will be better for our community, but (also) for communities across the country if they just start doing the real work of prioritizing safety.”