"At trial, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that “harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, were inevitable on the company’s platforms due to their vast user bases,”"

Umm... if the problem is your platform is too big that it has to harm people then maybe the answer is "you can't be that big"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/meta-loses-trial-after-arguing-child-exploitation-was-inevitable-on-its-apps/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps

Meta plans to appeal as it faces down two other child safety trials.

Ars Technica
@wordshaper which is why they're working with Heritage and other right wingnuts to pass laws requiring age verification to be baked into OSes...because they want to continue to be careless and irresponsible