Ryan Knudson

The beauty filter response is interesting that he's saying, I don't want to limit people's free speech, but we're going to make a choice not to recommend it.

That sort of suggests that Facebook does see that its own design choices, because not recommending something is a choice that Facebook is making, that its choices can have an impact on the experience that people have on the platform.

Right.

Yes.

And that's exactly why I thought this exchange was possibly the most important exchange of the day.

Before Lanier finished his questions, his team unspooled a 35-foot banner.

It showed all of the plaintiff's Instagram posts since she was 10 years old.

And they show this huge thing.

It takes seven people to hold it up, and they show it to the jury and Zuckerberg.

They ask him if he's seen some of the posts.

He says, I've seen some.

I haven't seen all of them.

What was the point they were trying to make, just to illustrate how much this has infiltrated her life?

Exactly.

Look how big a role this played in her life.

Like, look how many—I mean, it was massive.

It took, like I said, it took seven people to hold this banner up.

And there appeared to be some beauty filters on the plaintiff in some of these photos.

The trial in Los Angeles is expected to continue for over a month and will be decided by 12 members of the public—

Whatever happens, it'll have big implications for the thousands of other cases that are waiting to be heard next.