{"id":994054,"date":"2026-02-20T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994054"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:02:11","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-testifies-at-social-media-trial-over-kids-safety-says-lawyers-mischaracterising-his-words-and-other-key-things-he-told-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/mark-zuckerbergs-testifies-at-social-media-trial-over-kids-safety-says-lawyers-mischaracterising-his-words-and-other-key-things-he-told-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s testifies at social media trial over kids safety; says lawyers \u201cmischaracterising\u201d his words and other key things he told court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a stand in the Los Angeles court on February 18 in a landmark trial. The major trial examining whether social media platforms knowingly harm children. Zuckerberg rejected the claims that Instagram was designed to be addictive, saying lawyers were \u2018mischaracterising\u2019 his words. Meta CEO also argued that the internal emails about boosting engagement on the platform were aspirational and not official company goals.<\/p>\n<p>Meta CEO denied addiction claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a stand in the Los Angeles court on February 18 in a landmark trial. The major trial examining whether social media platforms knowingly harm children. Zuckerberg rejected the claims that Instagram was designed to be addictive, saying lawyers were \u2018mischaracterising\u2019 his words. Meta CEO also argued that the internal emails about boosting engagement on the platform were aspirational and not official company goals. Meta CEO denied addiction claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994054","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}