Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial

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Source: NPR

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to be grilled on Wednesday by lawyers who say social media services like Instagram were intentionally designed as "digital casinos" to hook young people, fueling a teen mental health crisis.

Zuckerberg's appearance before a Los Angeles jury is the most highly anticipated of the trial. Like the rest of the proceeding, Zuckerberg's testimony will not be available by livestream.

The crux of the trial is one question that could have sweeping consequences for Silicon Valley: Are social media platforms "defective products" engineered to exploit vulnerabilities in young people's brains?

Attorneys for the tech companies have countered that a child experiencing mental health issues after using a platform does not mean social media is responsible for the child's problems. Instead, they argue that the industry has become a scapegoat for the complex emotional issues children face that can have many root causes.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1-5716229/zuckerberg-social-media-addiction-trial

[SheltieLover]

1. Watch this 60 Min Brainhacking segment

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[The Roux Comes First]

2. The Truly Sick and Corrupt Cooperation of FB with the Russian Trashing of the 2016 Presidential Election,

Well-documented in accounts of the Cambridge Analytica operations, should dissuade any thinking party from trusting anything that comes out of Zuckerberg's mouth. He was a lying, cheating, conniving greed-monger from Day One. I have seen no indication of any easing of his personal corruptness since.

[Tree Lady]

3. I have watched documentaries on this

By top guys who worked for fb and quit, said they purposely knew what they were doing when they set the algorithms up to pursue the kids and rest of us. They purposely make it so you won't stop looking. They know what they are doing and it's all about money for ads and views.