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Zuckerberg Forced to Defend Meta’s Actions Toward Kids in Front of a Jury

Meta CEO takes stand in trial to decide social media’s effects on youth
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms, arrives Wednesday at a Los Angeles courthouse to testify at a landmark trial over social media addiction.Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports from inside a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a case claiming his company’s social media networks did harm to a young girl’s mental health.

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