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Zuckerberg Testifies in Social Media Addiction Trial
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Mark Zuckerberg testified before a jury in Los Angeles in a trial that analyzes whether Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to generate addiction in minors and affect their mental health. Meta's executive director appeared on Wednesday in a judicial process that brings together more than 1,600 plaintiffs. The case questions whether several technology companies created addictive functions, especially for minors. Zuckerberg rejected that accusati…
In a witness to the Los Angeles Supreme Court, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, presented an e-mail exchange from 2018, which included messages to Tim Cook, as evidence of his delays in the safety of young people on...
Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial
The Meta boss has claimed that Instagram doesn't hook kids, but internal documents suggest otherwise. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected allegations that his Instagram platform deliberately targets children and damages their mental health, in a trial that could open the floodgates to a wave of judgments against the social media giant. Zuckerberg took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday. The plaintiff in the lawsuit, a 20-year-ol…
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Denies Instagram is Addictive in Social Media Trial Testimony
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg denied social media is addictive Wednesday in his testimony at America’s first social media addiction trial. The highly anticipated case will determine whether social media companies like Meta can be held legally liable for creating addictive products. The complaint contends Instagram, a social media app owned by Meta, contributed to the social media addiction of a young woman named Kayley (initials KGM). Kayley’s alleged …
'This was addiction by design... I call it murder': Parents' anger as Zuckerberg faces court | US News | Tech, Entertainment, Sport, Fashion, Travel News
Grieving parents awaited Mark Zuckerberg’s arrival at a courthouse in downtown Los Angeles for what is being called the social media industry’s “big tobacco moment”. “I’m comforted by the fact he’s here alone, with only his lawyers and a jury. He’s without his lobbyists or his PR machine,” says Lori Schott, whose 18-year-old daughter Annalee had a social media addiction and died by suicide in 2020. “If we would have been here in this court 10 ye…
The trial opened this February 2026 in Los Angeles against Meta and Google represents a historic turning point in the regulation of digital. For the first time, architects of the world's largest platforms must answer for their engineering choices before a popular jury. Behind the judicial case, it is the whole mechanics of the attention economy that is exposed: algorithms deliberately designed to maximize commitment, even to sacrifice the mental…
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