{"id":1031315,"date":"2026-08-27T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031315"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:00:43","slug":"instagram-head-adam-mosseri-at-childrens-addiction-trial-says-few-teenagers-knew-of-safety-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/instagram-head-adam-mosseri-at-childrens-addiction-trial-says-few-teenagers-knew-of-safety-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram head Adam Mosseri, at children&#8217;s addiction trial, says few teenagers knew of safety feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before \u200bit was turned on by default, at a trial over whether \u200bMeta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by US states \u200bsuing Meta that Instagram stalled by not making the &#8220;Take a Break&#8221; feature the default setting for teenagers until September 2024, nearly three years after its launch. <\/p>\n<p>Under questioning from Jason Slothouber, an attorney for Colorado, Mosseri acknowledged that the percentage of teenagers using Take a Break was in the low-single digits before Instagram made it the default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before \u200bit was turned on by default, at a trial over whether \u200bMeta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by US states \u200bsuing Meta that Instagram stalled by not making the &#8220;Take a Break&#8221; feature the default setting for teenagers until September 2024, nearly three years after its launch. Under questioning from Jason Slothouber, an attorney for Colorado, Mosseri acknowledged that the percentage of teenagers using Take a Break was [&hellip;]<\/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-1031315","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\/1031315","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=1031315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031340,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031315\/revisions\/1031340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}