00:00The world's fourth richest man, Mark Zuckerberg, found himself in a courtroom Wednesday to answer
00:04accusations that his products, namely Facebook and Instagram, are harmful to users, especially
00:10younger ones. Mark Lanier, the attorney for the California woman who brought the suit,
00:15which claimed social media destroyed her mental health while she was a young teen,
00:18showed the jury emails in which Zuckerberg discussed goals to increase time spent on
00:24the apps by double-digit percentages. Now, asked if those targets went against congressional
00:29testimony when he claimed Meta didn't give teams such goals, Zuckerberg said, quote,
00:35if you are trying to say my testimony was not accurate, I strongly disagree with that.
00:40Now, if you know anything about VIPs on the witness stand, he was no doubt ready for that question.
00:46Zuckerberg was also pressed on whether Instagram is truly off-limits to children under 13,
00:51as is the company's stated policy. He admitted that enforcement is a problem,
00:55but Meta stands by the rule, saying, quote, I generally think that there are a set of people,
01:00potentially a meaningful number of people, who lie about their age in order to use our services.
01:04There's a separate and very important question about enforcement, and it's very difficult.
01:08Zuckerberg was greeted outside of the courthouse by protesters, parents whose children were hurt or
01:13even died as a result of social media use. Now, they're just a tiny slice of the 86 percent of
01:18Americans who said recently that they want to see the likes of Meta or Google held accountable for
01:24the safety of their most vulnerable users.
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