Instagram Boss Grilled on Teen Filter Use
Adam Mosseri, right, arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court.
Photographer: Caroline Brehman/Bloomberg
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri came under fire at a landmark trial over social media addiction for maintaining features on the photo-sharing app that researchers had flagged as harmful to teens.
Mosseri is the first company executive to testify during the Los Angeles trial, in which a 20-year-old woman blames Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube for her years of mental health struggles.
He was pressed by a lawyer representing the woman over how he handled controversy tied to image filters on the platform that allow users to virtually alter their appearance, sometimes ...