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Without 230, platforms could potentially be held liable for everything that people say.
They'd face much greater pressure to take down more content to avoid legal risk.
facing a jury for the first time to determine whether part of the company is fostering social media addiction in minors.
Lead plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier pulling out document after document, including one 2018 study stating that roughly a third of kids ages 10 to 12 in the U.S.
Plaintiff Kaylee, in this case, was nine years old when she signed up for it.
Zuckerberg maintains company policy is that users must be over the age of 13, but acknowledged kids can lie.
Zuckerberg pushed back with two separate reasons during these document showings and exhibits.
He said that some of the documents are about 10 years old, and he said in some cases he's not part of the correspondence that were being shown to the jury.
Zuckerberg admitted that many young people lie to get on Instagram.
The social media app requires users to be 13 years old, but the meta CEO said enforcing the rule is tricky.
One internal meta document showed that 30% of 10 and 12 year olds are using Instagram.
Zuckerberg was at times testy as he was being asked to explain emails and memos from more than a decade ago.
But he appeared aware of how he was coming across to jurors.
Responding to a document showing his staff coaching him to be more relatable and human, Zuckerberg said public remarks are not his favorite thing, saying, quote, I think I'm actually well known to be very bad at this.
The trial, linked to 1,600 other cases, is expected to last another four weeks.
Bobby Allen, NPR News, Los Angeles.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified today at a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles.
Meta and Google's YouTube are facing the first of 3,000 lawsuits filed against them,
alleging that the companies should be held liable for building algorithmic recommendations and product features, such as the infinite scroll and autoplay that make it difficult for teens to log off.