Mark Zuckerberg to testify in social media addiction trial

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Meta no longer designs apps to maximize screentime, Zuckerberg says during social media trial
During a Wednesday court appearance, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on a lawyer's suggestion that he had misled Congress about the design of the company's social media platforms, as ‌a landmark ...

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Mark Zuckerberg to testify during landmark trial on social media addiction
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial
Meta’s Zuckerberg testifies about social media’s effects on children in landmark trial
Mark Zuckerberg is set to take the stand Wednesday to testify for the first time before a jury about claims that his social media platforms harmed children and teens.

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg faces questions in case alleging platforms addict children
'Why Is This So Complicated': Mark Zuckerberg Denies Instagram Targets Kids At Trial
Social media on trial: tech giants face lawsuits over addiction, safety, and mental health
Lori Schott didn’t care what it took to haul her way from her small town in Eastern Colorado to show up to a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday.

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Mark Zuckerberg Testimony Highlights: Meta CEO faces questions on vulnerable social media users
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A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones

Gen Z and millennials deleting their social media platforms cite the increasing pressures of being online as well as the damage to their mental health.

Is social media addictive? How it keeps you clicking and the harms it can cause

Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.
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Social Media Screenshot Alert: Apps That Notify Users

Snapchat alerts users for all chat screenshots. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger do so only with disappearing messages. Telegram and Signal restrict or block screenshots in secret chats. WhatsApp blocks screenshots for view-once media but sends no alerts.
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I Quit Using Social Media — Here's What I Do Instead (It's Been Almost a Year!)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Rob Culpepper / Getty Images For years, I’d spend several hours a day scrolling through social media on my phone — while lying in my bed, watching TV, commuting on the subway ...