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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on Wednesday rejected claims that the platform is dangerously addictive, telling jurors in a high-profile. The trial of Los Angeles that using the app is more comparable to watching Netflix than suffering from a clinical addiction.
Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, drew a distinction between clinical addiction and what he described as “problematic use.” the New York Post informed
“I think it’s important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problem use,” Mosseri said. “I’m sure I’ve said I’ve been addicted to one Netflix show when I had a really late night, but I don’t think that’s the same as clinical addiction.”
Mosseri testified as part of a lawsuit filed by a California woman who said she started using Instagram at age 9 and later struggled with depression and body dysmorphia.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri compared using the platform to watching Netflix in court. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
She is suing Meta and Google’s YouTube, alleging that the companies targeted young users despite being aware of potential mental health risks, Reuters reported.
CEO goal Mark Zuckerberg he is expected to take the position in the coming weeks.
The case is widely seen as a test of federal legal protections that shield social media companies from liability over user-generated content. The outcome could influence hundreds of similar lawsuits across the country, according to Reuters.
Mosseri also questioned Instagram’s beauty filters and whether they promote unrealistic standards of appearance, the New York Post reported.
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“I’m sure I said I was addicted to a Netflix show when I was on it really late one night,” Mosseri said, “but I don’t think it’s the same as clinical addiction.” (Mona Edwards/Reuters/Reuters)
“There’s always a trade-off between security and speech,” Mosseri said. “We’re trying to be as safe as possible and censor as little as possible.”
Emails from 2019 filed in court show a debate over whether to lift the ban on filters that mimic plastic surgery. Instagram Policycommunications and welfare teams supported keeping the ban in place, Reuters reported.
Mosseri and Zuckerberg supported restoring the filters but removing them from the recommendations, an option described internally as a “notable welfare risk” while limiting the impact on growth, according to Reuters.
The case is widely seen as a test of protections that shield social media companies from lawsuits related to user-generated content. (Jens Büttner/Photo Alliance via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“I was trying to balance all the different considerations,” Mosseri said.
Meta has said the central question in the case is whether Instagram was a substantial factor in the plaintiff’s mental health struggles.
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“The evidence will show that he has faced many important and difficult challenges much earlier than ever before use social networks” a Meta spokesman said on Tuesday.
Meta did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
