{"id":40891,"date":"2026-02-19T03:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40891"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:04:27","slug":"zuckerberg-to-testify-in-media-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40891","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg to testify in media trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to testify at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, where Instagram and other platforms are accused of deliberately hooking young users.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old head of Meta &#8212; which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp \u2014\u00a0is the most hotly anticipated witness in the California trial, the first in a series of cases that could set legal precedent for thousands of lawsuits filed by American families against social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will mark the first time the multibillionaire will address the safety of his world-dominating platforms directly before a jury.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg&#8217;s controversial reputation has loomed over the proceedings since jury selection, when Meta&#8217;s lawyers worked to exclude California residents deemed too hostile toward the Facebook founder.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 jurors in Los Angeles will hear testimony until late March before deciding whether Google-owned YouTube and Meta&#8217;s Instagram bear responsibility for the mental health problems suffered by Kaley GM, a 20-year-old California resident who has been a heavy social media user since childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Kaley GM started using YouTube at age six, Instagram at 11, then TikTok and Snapchat.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angeles court on Wednesday to testify at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, where Instagram and other platforms are accused of deliberately hooking young users. The 41-year-old head of Meta &#8212; which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp \u2014\u00a0is the most hotly anticipated witness in the California trial, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}