LOS ANGELES—Testifying in a high-stakes jury trial considering whether social media companies are designing their platforms to be addictive to young people despite known risks, a former director who oversaw safety at Meta on Thursday told a jury the company’s leadership was aware of “staggering” rates of harm to children but chose to bury the problem.
“Meta’s executive leadership are aware of a significant amount of harms kids experience on the platforms and chose not to address it, or tell parents about it,” Arturo Bejar, a former director of engineering at the tech giant, told the court.
