A former Meta employee stunned the courtroom by revealing how the company’s obsession with user engagement—especially among teens—came at the cost of mental health, with safety treated as an afterthought. Arturo Béjar testified that Facebook and Instagram were engineered to maximize time spent, even if it harmed users, and that performance metrics rewarded engagement over well-being. He exposed how Meta knowingly hid addictive features like autoplay and popularity counters, collected data from kids under 13 without consent, and failed to stop underage accounts despite internal awareness. Béjar also slammed safety tools like “Take a Break,” calling them useless unless manually enabled—like airbags you must turn on every time. The lawsuit seeks sweeping platform reforms and billions in penalties, forcing Meta to defend its practices—or face consequences for prioritizing profit over people.
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