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Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. >> Excuse me. Excuse me. >> Excuse us.>> Excuse us. Thank you. Excuse me. >> Excuse us.>> Mark, are you excited for your testimony. >> Thank you. Excuse me.We got to walk. Excuse us. >> Thank you.Excuse me. We've got to walk. >> Mark Zuckerberg, you've been served with a summon and complaint. >> Mark Zuckerberg, you've been served. You've been >> Mr.. Zuckerberg. again two years later. ...

We are keeping a close eye on the landmark social media addiction trial happening right now in Los Angeles. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on the stand testifying in the case centered around whether social media platforms knowingly designed their apps in a way that harms children. Meta and Google's YouTube are the defendants in this case.The companies deny the claims that their products are to blame for mental health issues in children. Joining us now, NBC News business and data correspondent Brian C ...

Mark Zuckerberg is on the stand today in a very high-profile social media trial in downtown Los Angeles. Julia Borston is live outside the courthouse for us today uh for today's tech check, no less. Julia, what can you tell us.Well, Kelly, Mark Zuckerberg has been testifying for the past hour in this trial on the addictive nature of Meta's product design and potential damage done to kids and teens. Now, one key line of questioning that he's been facing is whether Meta actually prevents kids under age 13 fro ...

Mark Zuckerberg is set to take the stand at a landmark trial over social media addiction and face a barrage of questions about how Meta balances protecting young users on its platforms and boosting revenue https://t.co/nebEwUd0eN ...

outside the courthouse in Los Angeles. Also with us, Mike Isaac and Cecilia Kang who both cover technology for The New York Times. Cecilia is also the co-author of An Ugly Truth Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination.Highly, highly relevant here. But Jillian we'll go first to you. This is of course a landmark trial for social media.What are parents and advocates telling you about the ways they feel kids have been harmed by these platforms. Yeah, Ali. What we've been hearing from attorneys and parents alike ...

Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. And joining us right now is Joshua Tucker, co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. How much today is uh about theater and how much do you think is actually going to be accomplished, if you will, that we're actually going to learn something new.>> I mean, we'll have to see what happens what happens in the court case today and what they end up discussing and what they end up talking a ...

The Meta CEO will face grieving families when he testifies in a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles.Meta and YouTube are accused of intentionally designing addictive features that hooked a now-20-year-old woman as a child and harmed her mental health. The lawsuit brought by "Kaley" and her mother is the first of more than 1,500 similar lawsuits to go to trial.A Meta spokesperson has said "we strongly disagree" with the allegations in Kaley's lawsuit. https://t.co/eDeelZm4iX ...

You are actively rewiring your brain for the worst by engaging with social media, high volume, quick videos. >> And the social media executives don't let their kids use this stuff because they designed it to be addictive and they know that millions and millions of kids have been cyberbullied, sexed. Many have committed suicide. So, I'm getting angry. >> And then from the medical perspective, it's rewiring your body, increasing your risk of heart disease and PTSD. >> We've moved too far into the virtual worl ...

Core Viewpoint - The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, testified in court that he does not believe social media can lead to clinical addiction, instead referring to excessive use as "problematic use" [1][2]. Group 1: Testimony and Definitions - Mosseri emphasized the distinction between clinical addiction and "problematic use," which he defines as spending more time on Instagram than one feels good about [2]. - He acknowledged a specific case where a user spent 16 hours on Instagram in one day, labeling it as "problematic use" [3]. Group 2: Company Policies and Decisions - Meta, Instagram's parent company, banned body image filters in 2019, but internal discussions indicated a desire to lift the ban, despite concerns about user safety [4][6]. - Emails revealed that some Instagram employees advocated for maintaining the ban on filters that promote plastic surgery, highlighting a conflict between growth and responsibility [5][6]. Group 3: Criticism and Implications - Mosseri's testimony faced criticism, particularly from advocates for bereaved families, who argue that Instagram's leadership prioritized growth over the safety of minors [7][8]. - The testimony suggested that Instagram was aware of the risks its platform posed to young users but continued to implement features designed to increase engagement, potentially exposing them to harm [9].