Instagram Boss Grilled at Trial Over Teen Use of Beauty Filters

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri came under fire at a landmark trial over social media addiction for maintaining features on the photo-sharing app that researchers had flagged as harmful to teens.

Mosseri is the first company executive to testify during the Los Angeles trial, in which a 20-year-old woman blames Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube for her years of mental health struggles.

The trial is a critical test for thousands of similar cases with billions of dollars at stake, as well as the prospect that social media companies could be forced to change how they interact with ...