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The states argue that Meta withheld relevant information from users and parents
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But, he noted, Mosseri did not indicate that a low number of people used the feature in the first place.
Key facts
- Dellums Federal Building & United States Courthouse as Meta is on trial over social media addiction in Oakland, California, on August 25, 2026
- But Jason Slothouber, with the Colorado Attorney General's office, pushed back, noting that the change was made after the states had already sued Meta in 2023
- Asked to confirm that there was no way at the time for parents to know that only 1-2% of teens would use the feature, Mosseri replied: "Correct
- In late 2024 the company made the feature the default on all teen accounts, which were also introduced that year
Summary
Adam Mosseri (C), head of Instagram, arrives at the Ronald V. OAKLAND, Calif., The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, said in court on Tuesday that a feature introduced in 2021 to try to help teens regulate their time on the app had lower uptake than he had hoped for and he wished it had been fixed sooner. Attorneys representing California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are suing Instagram's parent company Meta, accusing it of designing Instagram and its other flagship platform, Facebook, to hook kids and harvest their data and of hiding the truth about dangers the platforms posed to young people. Under questioning from a lawyer for the states, Mosseri spoke about the feature, called Take a Break, which has a pop-up message suggesting to young users that they pause their use of the app once they have been on it for a fixed period of time.