Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
Lawyers suing Meta called the hats an example of its ‘culture of privilege abuse.’
by Richard Lawler
Sep 24, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC
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Meta’s lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens’ safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document showing that the team behind launching Instagram’s Teen Accounts in 2024 put in an order for baseball caps that simply said “a/c priv.”
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