Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Zuckerberg denies Instagram targets children in addiction trial

Zuckerberg appears at Instagram lawsuit

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended Instagram in a closely watched Los Angeles court case, rejecting claims that the platform was deliberately engineered to addict young users or harm their mental health.

Testifying in a lawsuit brought by a 20-year-old woman who alleges social media exposure contributed to anxiety, depression and body image issues, Zuckerberg told the court Instagram does not intentionally “hook” children, despite internal company materials highlighting user engagement and time spent on the platform as key success metrics.

During questioning, lawyers presented internal Meta documents suggesting the company sought to attract younger audiences, including a presentation stating, “If we want to win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens.”

Zuckerberg said he did not recall the context of some documents and acknowledged it remains “very difficult” to prevent under-13 users from bypassing age restrictions.



Meta’s legal team argued the plaintiff’s struggles predated social media use, while critics pointed to company research indicating vulnerable teens were more frequently exposed to harmful content.

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  1. Zuck; “Hey, Jared Kushner; can you help me out here with countersuits?”
    Jared; “Try Elon first, and then the rest of the Cabal; I’m too busy murdering Palestinians so that I can annex the land for my people!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6DQt2aGI0
    Covid was also a Zionist Talmudic Ops…the J3w$ own almost ALL of the pharmaceutical companies, and this is where Kushner made BILLIONS!!!!
    But, his Vax Daddy-in-Law Trump insured that his little princess would do well under the control of the J3w$ with policies administered by the Shabbo-Goy! This became glaringly apparent on Trump’s second day in office! when he announced AI-vaccines that profiled the targets slated for injectable genocide!
    https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1923310139408281682
    Also, do NOT submit a DNA sample to the Heritage Sites that supposedly seek your ‘family history’. This will profile you, and be sold to third parties.
    If you have so-called ‘J3wi$h Heritage’ (which in truth does NOT exist…), then you may be spared to serve the full J3was a Shabbos-Goy.
    All other will be marked for death.
    Just ask the Palestinians…and the Christian Russian Orthodox Church members in the Ukraine…Millions DEAD!
    They are also looking for the ‘Holy Grail Bloodline’ of Sarah, who was Jesus & Mary’s first daughter.
    The Holy Roman Mother Cat-holic Church has kept this hidden from everyone, but the J3w$ know all about it!
    From these children stemmed the Holy Bloodline that the demoni and satanic J3w$ have been trying to destroy for centuries past!
    There are thousands of descendants of Sarah and her sister on the Earth today, and the Talmudic Hoardes have been after them since 35AD.
    Jesus referred to them as ‘a den of vipers’. When Jesus pronounced and stated that, He was no longer a J3w; He was the Nazarene in the purest sense. The Ethiopian and Coptic Christian Churches knew the info that the J3w$ wanted from Jesus, so that the J3w$ sought to corrupt the teaching of Christ.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VBXzRhA1M8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwPyIvjGvI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgtN2WzlblY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDJgYbC8OQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Vs7qzTfdg

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