Meta Accused of Treating Teen Safety Like Optional App Update
KEY POINTS
- •On Monday, New Mexico's attorney Don Migliori accused Meta of misleading the public on teen safety risks.
- •Meta executives’ public statements contrasted strongly with its internal research showing harm on Facebook and Instagram.
- •Meta lawyer Kevin Huff defended the company's priorities, focusing on free expression and profits over user safety.
On a bright Monday, New Mexico’s attorney Don Migliori charged Meta with mastering the art of saying one thing out loud while holding a secret internal tea party of doom about Facebook and Instagram’s teen dangers. While Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg gazed confidently over his justice scale photo-op, Meta attorney Kevin Huff danced verbal gymnastics defending alleged contradictions. According to Migliori, Meta cared more about cashing in and waving a free speech flag than actually protecting teen users from social media addiction and child predators. The trial’s setting? New Mexico—apparently not on Facebook’s safe list. Meanwhile, teen safety lurks behind closed boardroom doors, quietly ignored between quarterly earnings calls.
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Meta spent years crafting the perfect magic trick: say 'we care,' mean 'let’s profit from teen chaos,' and watch everyone applaud anyway.
Meta’s new motto: Make teens addicted, deny it loudly, then blame competitors when caught.
If Meta made social media like their public statements, teens would log in for hugs and wisdom instead of existential dread.
Source: Theverge | Published: 2/10/2026 | Author: Lauren Feiner
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