{"id":993775,"date":"2026-02-19T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993775"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:38:21","slug":"help-ignore-or-prey-on-a-child-what-zuckerberg-told-jury-about-metas-underage-user-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/help-ignore-or-prey-on-a-child-what-zuckerberg-told-jury-about-metas-underage-user-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Help, ignore, or prey on a child?\u2019 What Zuckerberg told jury about Meta\u2019s underage user concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified for the first time in a landmark trial about child safety and social media. The case is the first in a series of lawsuits filed by minors, school districts, and state attorneys general accusing social media platforms of being addictive and harmful to children. <\/p>\n<p>During testimony, a lawyer presented a simple drawing of a frowning stick figure to represent a vulnerable child and asked Zuckerberg whether a responsible company should help, ignore, or prey on a child. \u201cI think a reasonable company should try to help a person that uses its services,\u201d Zuckerberg replied, according to NYT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified for the first time in a landmark trial about child safety and social media. The case is the first in a series of lawsuits filed by minors, school districts, and state attorneys general accusing social media platforms of being addictive and harmful to children. During testimony, a lawyer presented a simple drawing of a frowning stick figure to represent a vulnerable child and asked Zuckerberg whether a responsible company should help, ignore, or prey on a child. \u201cI think a reasonable company should try to help a person that uses its services,\u201d Zuckerberg [&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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993775","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=993775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}