Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “ignored” top executives who called for bolder actions and more resources to protect users, especially kids and teens, even as the company faced mounting scrutiny over its safety practices, a newly unredacted legal complaint alleges.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “ignored” top executives who called for bolder actions and more resources to protect
Meta has over 30 tools and resources “to help keep teens safe and away from potentially harmful content or unwanted contact,” Meta spokeswoman Liza Crenshaw said in a statement Wednesday.“The complaint is filled with selective quotes from handpicked documents that do not provide the full context of how the company operates or what decisions were made,” she added.
Arturo Béjar, a former senior engineering and product leader at Meta, on Tuesday testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee that senior executives failed tothat Meta needed to take a different approach to fight high rates of bullying, harassment or unwanted sexual advances faced by teens.In his email to Zuckerberg in 2021, Clegg said they “need to do more” to protect users’ well-being. Meta’s efforts in that area were understaffed and fragmented,” Clegg wrote.
But the meeting was canceled a day before it was scheduled to take place. Instead, Zuckerberg sent an email vetoing the proposal, according to the lawsuit. Zuckerberg stated that there was a “clear demand” for the filters and that he had seen “no data” suggesting that they were harmful, the legal filing alleges.“I respect your call on this and I’ll support it, but want to just say for the record that I don’t think it’s the right call given the risks,” Stewart said, according to the lawsuit.
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