{"id":991550,"date":"2026-02-12T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991550"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:31:31","slug":"instagram-chief-says-social-media-is-not-clinically-addictive-in-landmark-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/instagram-chief-says-social-media-is-not-clinically-addictive-in-landmark-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram chief says social media is not &#8216;clinically addictive&#8217; in landmark trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s chief executive said Wednesday that social media was not &#8220;clinically addictive,&#8221; refuting claims that the platform prioritized making money over the mental health of young users in a landmark tech addiction case. <\/p>\n<p>The CEO, Adam Mosseri, described Instagram, which is owned by Meta, as a steward of strong safety protocols for teenagers. Social media could cause some harm, he said, but the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them. He added that people could be addicted to social media in the same way that they could be addicted to a good television show, but that did not mean they were &#8220;clinically addicted,&#8221; which was more serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram&#8217;s chief executive said Wednesday that social media was not &#8220;clinically addictive,&#8221; refuting claims that the platform prioritized making money over the mental health of young users in a landmark tech addiction case. The CEO, Adam Mosseri, described Instagram, which is owned by Meta, as a steward of strong safety protocols for teenagers. Social media could cause some harm, he said, but the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them. He added that people could be addicted to social media in the same way that they could be addicted to a good television show, [&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-991550","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\/991550","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=991550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}