‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge
A 2016 internal email stating that Instagram’s overall company goal was “teen time spent” is now an exhibit in an Oakland courtroom. It is one of several internal documents the states put before a federal judge this week, in the first case to reach trial out of a litigation covering 3,000 claims.
The trial opened on Tuesday before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California, six weeks after she declined to dismiss the case.
Four states, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, are trying consumer-protection and COPPA claims as the spearhead of a 29-state coalition.
Eight jurors are hearing it, five women and three men, but their verdict is advisory. Gonzalez Rogers decides liability and any remedy herself, a point most coverage has skated over.
Megan O’Neill, a California deputy attorney general, opened for the states with a four-word summary of the business model:...
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