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Instagram head Adam Mosseri to testify at Meta child social media addiction trial
Mosseri said few teens used Instagram’s Take a Break feature before it became default, as states seek up to $200 billion in penalties.
- Adam Mosseri, Instagram head at Meta, testified in a trial where California and 28 other states accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to keep children online while hiding potential harms and legal liabilities.
- The lawsuit claims Meta violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent and misled users about platform safety.
- Meta faces potential penalties of up to $200 billion, and if found liable, may have to change features such as infinite scroll and beauty filters, affecting social media platforms broadly.
- Mosseri denied directing employees to withhold information or reduce researchers studying youth mental health harm, though Meta limited access to some internal research after whistleblower Frances Haugen’s 2021 leaks.
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Meta discussed with American states a possible friendly settlement of her ongoing federal trial on the addiction of minors to Facebook and Instagram, reported on Tuesday night Bloomberg, while several attorneys general convened press conferences for Wednesday morning. ...
·Brussels, Belgium
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In the US trial against Meta, Instagram's leader Adam Mosseri admitted that he had highlighted the effectiveness of a protective feature for minors whose adoption rate
·France
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Meta, US states have discussed settling teen social media harm case
The development comes during a federal court trial in California over claims brought by 29 states, in what is one of the highest-profile tests of allegations that social media companies have harmed young users
·Chennai, India
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