{"id":1030065,"date":"2026-08-20T09:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030065"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:09:00","slug":"meta-safety-tools-designed-to-fail-former-employee-tells-landmark-us-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/meta-safety-tools-designed-to-fail-former-employee-tells-landmark-us-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta safety tools &#8216;designed to fail&#8217;, former employee tells landmark US trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee testified on Wednesday that some of Meta&#8217;s safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were &#8220;designed to fail,&#8221; contradicting the company&#8217;s defense strategy in a landmark trial in California. <\/p>\n<p>For a second day, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of US states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public. <\/p>\n<p>A loss for the social media giant could see it slapped with a $200 billion penalty, force fundamental changes to its business model and send shockwaves through the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee testified on Wednesday that some of Meta&#8217;s safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were &#8220;designed to fail,&#8221; contradicting the company&#8217;s defense strategy in a landmark trial in California. For a second day, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of US states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public. A loss for the social media giant could see it slapped with a $200 billion penalty, force fundamental changes to its business model and send shockwaves through the industry.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030065","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=1030065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030083,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030065\/revisions\/1030083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}