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Sex Crimes And Suicides Dominate Landmark Trial As Zuckerberg Testifies
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION
Hailey Gomez
West Coast Reporter
February 18, 2026 2:52 PM ET
As Mark Zuckerberg heads to a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, a landmark trial accuses Meta and rivals of engineering addiction in kids.
Experts speaking to the Daily Caller News Foundation say platforms knew the toll, yet dragged their feet on basic protections until forced by litigation. Revelations kicked off with Frances Haugen’s 2021 leaks exposing Meta’s internal research on Instagram worsening issues like suicidal thoughts and eating disorders among teen girls, continuing with ongoing evidence, including internal data showing predators contacting hundreds of thousands of children daily, driving a surge of multi-district lawsuits and state actions ahead of a bellwether trial.
Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, says the problems are longstanding and deliberately unaddressed: “these platforms have been dangerous for a long time. They know they’ve been dangerous. They’ve even been studying the ways they’ve been dangerous.”
“We focus on exploitation, so I won’t pretend to be an expert about all the addiction properties. But I can say that we’ve been interfacing with Meta and their platforms for close to 10 years, and trying to communicate different aspects of the platform that were really dangerous for a long time,” Pinter told the DCNF.
“We asked Meta to make it impossible for adults, like stranger adults, to connect with children on Instagram, for example. And they refused to do just common sense changes like that, until they actually had to face lawsuits,” Pinter added. “I can’t really speak to the addiction [part] in particular, but these platforms have been dangerous for a long time.”
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, where tech companies like Meta, Google, and others are required to report suspected incidents, received 20.5 million reports in 2024, equating to about 29.2 million separate cases after adjusting for bundled submissions. (RELATED: ‘We’re Not Scary’: AI-Dominated Social Network Raises Eyebrows As Humans Try To ‘Catch Up’ To True Intentions)
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have an iPad, his own company’s invention. Current Apple CEO Tim Cook restricted his nephew from social networks; and even Zuckerberg reportedly wrote in a 2016 email that notifying parents about teens’ live videos “will probably ruin the product from the start.”____________
Grant said these admissions underscore that industry insiders recognized the dangers early but continued anyway.
As Zuckerberg testifies in this landmark bellwether case — the first jury trial over claims that social media giants knowingly designed addictive, harmful products for kids —the outcome could establish a new baseline for corporate responsibility. A plaintiff verdict could potentially force industry-wide safeguards that parents have long demanded, holding platforms accountable for the exploitation and mental health toll that victims’ say they’ve enabled for years.
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