Zuckerberg criticized the court for harming young people on social media

The CEO of the company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, testified in court on Wednesday in a landmark case aimed at determining whether the content of the social network is difficult and harmful to teenagers and children. The case, which is being held in LA Superior Court, has already revealed that Meta Your research has shown that parental supervision cannot prevent teenagers from using social media compulsively, and that teenagers who experience more pain in their lives are more likely to use social media.

Lawyers for the plaintiff, a 20-year-old who goes by his initials KGM, asked Zuckerberg this week if Instagram employees were given additional goals to use the daily program. The CEO of Meta said at the Congress that this was not the case, AP noticedBut a 2015 email chain submitted as evidence in the lawsuit showed Zuckerberg pushing to expand user time is 12%.

Zuckerberg was also asked about Instagram’s use of beauty filters, which Meta experts said should be banned when it comes to teenagers, and Meta’s internal records of how many children under the age of 13 were on the platform. One Cut the document from 2018 he said thataIn 2015, 4 million children under the age of 13 had Instagram accounts, including about 30% of 10-12 year olds in the US, for example.

Here, Zuckerberg pushed back, saying age verification was difficult and smartphone manufacturers like Apple could be more helpful on this front. (Apple has recently released tools to verify your age for developers, due to the increasing pressure to control applications such as Facebook and Instagram in the US, where more it says to be now developed or developing their social media rules.)

Reports from court Zuckerberg stuck to the company’s arguments during his testimony, at times saying the defense attorneys were. taking things the wrong way or to interfere what the documents said.

Plaintiff KGM (who also goes by her first name Kaley) has sued four social media companies over what she says are dangerous and disruptive content on their platforms. TikTok and Picture settled before the lawsuit, YouTube and Meta defend the success of their programs.

In the lawsuit, Meta’s lawyers said it was Kaley’s unhappy childhood that caused her anxiety, not social media. The outcome of this trial and jury could lead to major changes in technology, lead to new laws and regulations, and lead to reconciliation with victims, if technology companies are found to be at fault.