Ryan Knudson

Basically, the app was designed to prevent her from looking away at any cost.

That's what the complaint says.

KGM's lawyers also say that features like Instagram's beauty filters, which digitally enhance a user's face, gave her body dysmorphia.

During the trial, the plaintiff's lawyer submitted internal company documents from 2019 that he said show executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, knew that beauty filters could cause harm.

They were temporarily banned in 2019, pending a review.

Meta brought in 18 experts to take a look at this and sort of see whether it was doing harm to people and do a review of that.

All 18 experts found that it was harmful.

These filters were harmful to teenage girls.

And so Zuckerberg and some other executives talked about it, what to do.

And Zuckerberg said, basically, we didn't ultimately think there was enough harm to ban them completely, at least evidenced harm.

Meta defended the decision to bring back some of the beauty filters, saying that the company made tweaks to make them safer, like not recommending them to users.

KGM, the plaintiff, alleges that social media use as a teen also led her to struggles with suicidal thoughts, anxiety, and depression.

In a statement, Mehta said the full record will show a company that has consistently put teen safety ahead of growth for over a decade.

Last week, Instagram CEO Adam Masseri was called to testify in KGM's trial.

He said he didn't consider social media to be clinically addictive.

One of the main things he did was try to draw a distinction between what is clinical addiction and what is sort of jokingly people talk about being addicted to social media.

He was trying to make the point that that is different from being clinically addicted to something in the way that you are diagnosed as being addicted to something.

Social media addiction is not an official standalone medical diagnosis.

Some psychologists instead describe it as a form of behavioral addiction.

The plaintiffs argue that it's clear Meta's apps are causing problems, and that Meta and other social media platforms have an economic incentive to keep users engaged.