Instagram Guy Brags About Making $20M While Kids Get Addicted
KEY POINTS
- •Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s CEO since 2018, testified in a Los Angeles court about social media addictiveness.
- •He revealed making $900,000 annually with bonuses and tens of millions in stock-based pay some years.
- •The lawsuit claims Meta engineered platforms harming kids’ mental health, focusing on cosmetic filters and their effects.
Adam Mosseri, the head honcho of Instagram since 2018, took the stand Wednesday in L.A. to defend Meta against claims it rigs apps to wire kids’ brains for addiction. Asked about his pay, Mosseri casually dropped that he earns about $900K a year plus bonuses up to half that, but don’t trip—stock grants sometimes tip over $20 million annually, a paycheck bigger than some small countries' GDP. Meanwhile, Meta is being sued because kids are getting depressed and suicidal scrolling filter-obsessed feeds. When grilled about banning cosmetic filters to help teens, Mosseri said he wasn’t worried about the stock price, which clearly rests on the addiction gravy train. Meta denies wrongdoing and brags about teen safety tools, but we all know safety means 'keep scrolling, kids!'
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Nothing says 'child mental health absolution' like the Instagram CEO casually admitting he rakes in $20 million to keep kids hooked and filters flawless.
Instagram’s top exec gets grilled for up to $20M in stock while kids get sucked into filter-fuelled misery. Capitalism’s finest hour.
They say filters are cosmetic, but Mosseri’s paycheck is proof addiction is meta-physical—and spectacularly lucrative.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/11/2026 | Author: Kelsey Vlamis,Sydney Bradley
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