Meta Ignored Harms to Teens on Instagram, Ex-Staffer Testifies

Nov. 7, 2023, 6:49 PM UTC

Meta executives know their policies fail to protect kids but choose to ignore the problem, a former Facebook staffer told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Arturo Béjar, who served as an engineering director at Facebook then later as a consultant with Instagram’s well-being team, claimed he warned Meta Platforms Inc. chief Mark Zuckerberg and other top officials about safety concerns for teen users but was met with inaction. Béjar said his own internal research at the company, which found in a 2021 survey that one in eight teens aged 13 to 15 experienced unwanted sexual advances on Instagram within the past seven ...

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