Adam Mosseri

Emily had always battled mental health issues, but when some classmates posted photos of her with an apron and hairnet on social media and began cyberbullying her, it got worse

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He’s one of hundreds of vendors, easily discoverable online, who specialise in disabling the flashing LED light embedded in Meta’s smartglasses that blinks when wearers capture photos, videos and audio

Parents see landmark Meta trial as turning point in protecting kids online

The pink-and-orange gradient square on the home screen remains untouched

With more than 7m pairs reportedly sold in 2025, it’s clear that the popularity of Meta’s smartglasses is on the rise

Meta’s smart glasses allow creators to record strangers without holding up an obvious camera

In both the New Mexico trial and concurrent court proceedings in Los Angeles, Facebook and Instagram features have also come under scrutiny for their alleged impact on children’s mental health

She would wake up in the middle of the night to check her notifications

Closing arguments begin Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope

The comments, revealed March 4-5, 2026, in a New Mexico courtroom, came as prosecutors played excerpts from Zuckerberg's pretrial deposition to support allegations that Meta violated state consumer protection laws by failing to adequately disclose or mitigate risks of child sexual exploitation and mental health damage on its services

Kaley started using YouTube at the age of 6, downloading the app on her iPod Touch to watch videos about lip gloss collections and the online kids game Animal Jam

The plaintiff, who is now 20 and is identified in court by her initials, K.G.M., is at the center of a bellwether case in Los Angeles County Superior Court that could set a legal precedent about whether social media platforms are responsible for causing mental health issues in children

The filing, which was made public on Friday but not previously reported, contains emails, messages and briefing documents obtained in discovery for a lawsuit brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez that shed new light on what the company assessed the impact of the plan would be and how senior policy and safety executives viewed it at the time

YouTube vice president of engineering Cristos Goodrow was pressed to defend the company's self-styled "big, hairy, audacious goal," set more than a decade ago, to increase viewer time to more than a billion hours a day by 2016

The document, made public on Friday as part of a federal lawsuit in California and reviewed by Reuters, includes portions of a March 2025 deposition of Instagram head Adam Mosseri

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg testified before a Los Angeles jury, defending Meta Platforms against allegations that its social media platforms deliberately targeted young users and fostered addictive behavior

The marketing comes from a group called the Coalition to Empower Our Future, which counts social media giant Meta among its members

The case features billionaire chief executives on the stand, armies of lawyers and accusations that companies built machines designed to addict children, all being played out in front of a highly emotional public gallery

Instagram’s CEO dismissed the idea that users can be addicted to social media at a landmark California trial on Wednesday

Jurors got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining social media companies named as defendants

But Meta just took the Friday news dump to a whole new level with this announcement: It's disabled its AI characters for teen accounts, at least until the characters can behave themselves

Rebecca has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism