Whistleblower Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta
Former Meta employee Arturo Béjar testified in a landmark trial, alleging that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a company culture that prioritized profits over user safety. The trial involves a coalition of states suing Meta for allegedly designing platforms to be addictive and harmful to young users.
Why it matters
This testimony highlights ongoing legal and ethical scrutiny regarding the impact of social media algorithms on child safety and corporate accountability.
Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Béjar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today in the landmark child safety trial against the social media company. Only one man had the ability to change that, Béjar said: CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But he didn't.
"At the end of the day, it was the company culture that Mark had created that made it so that it was practically impossible to deliver features that addressed the wellbeing and safety issues that we've been talking about," he said.
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