{"id":1029968,"date":"2026-08-20T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029968"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:58:08","slug":"former-meta-engineer-says-instagram-took-a-dont-ask-dont-tell-approach-on-kids-under-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/former-meta-engineer-says-instagram-took-a-dont-ask-dont-tell-approach-on-kids-under-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Meta engineer says Instagram took a &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; approach on kids under 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. <\/p>\n<p>During his second day of testimony, Arturo Bejar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing its products, focusing on how often and for how long people used them, even if it was detrimental to their mental well-being. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you step away from the product, they are not going to make any money,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Bejar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing its products, focusing on how often and for how long people used them, even if it was detrimental to their mental well-being. &#8220;If you step away from the product, they are not going to make any money,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030001,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029968\/revisions\/1030001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}