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Testimony

Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation

Trahan describes manipulative, attention-capturing design features in kids' apps like Messenger Kids and the reported Instagram for Kids, and asks Zuckerberg directly whether the planned Instagram for Kids will include endless scroll and beautifying filters, plus how he'll personally handle his own children craving screen time over face-to-face interaction. …

Testimony

Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation

McKinley confronts Zuckerberg with fresh staff-identified examples of oxycodone, Ritalin, Xanax, and Adderall being sold on Instagram — three years after Zuckerberg apologized for the same problem on Facebook — and repeatedly asks whether Zuckerberg should be held personally liable, comparing it to liability for retailers selling cigarettes to minors and manufacturers held liable for the opioid crisis. …

Testimony

Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation

Citing her DETOUR Act targeting "dark patterns" — deceptive interface tactics used to extract personal data — Blunt Rochester asks whether Zuckerberg would oppose legislation banning such manipulative design, and whether he'll commit to including deceptive design choices in Meta's own internet-regulation proposals. …

Testimony

Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data

Asks, as a parent, whether he worries about social media addiction among teens. Says Meta studies well-being effects and distinguishes positive, relationship-building use -- linked to long-term happiness -- from passive consumption, which can be harmful.

Internal documentMessages

"we're talking about actively encouraging young girls into body dysmorphia"

Margaret Stewart: "We are asking for your support to update our policies to: 1. Disallow effects that mimic plastic surgery for first party (FB/IG/MSGR) and third party effects. …

Margaret Stewart · Andrew Bosworth · John Hegeman · Karina Newton · Adam Mosseri and names withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

Body image & eating disorders
Ex. 362, G, 71 · Dkt 2887-30, 3246Read →
Alleged by plaintiffs

PLAINTIFFS’ CHARACTERIZATION

Systrom replied to Zuckerberg on April 21, 2017 to note that issues were equally bad at Instagram, where "[l]ast weekend a boy shot himself on IG live" and there were an average of three live videos a week involving "imminent danger from issues ranging from self harm to child exploitation."

Unnamed employee, as quoted by plaintiffs

Knowledge

Suicide & self-injury

Source: Plaintiff's Complaint for Abatement and Civil Penalties, New Mexico v. Meta