Instagram Chief Admits Few Teens Used Safety Feature Before Default Activation

Alleged mental health harms to young users including anxiety, depression, and suicide linked to platform design.

In a San Francisco federal courtroom, the head of Instagram acknowledged this week that a tool designed to protect teenagers from compulsive use had reached fewer than two percent of young accounts before the company quietly made it mandatory — nearly three years after its launch. The admission arrived at the center of a $200 billion lawsuit brought by 29 American states, which argue that Meta knowingly engineered its platforms to capture and hold the attention of children at the expense of their mental health. It is a moment that asks an old question in a new register: when a company understa

Instagram Chief Admits Few Teens Used Safety Feature Before Default Activation

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