Instagram Boss Grilled at Trial Over Profit Versus Youth Safety

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 — claims the companies deny.

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 ...