The head of Instagram said the company spent years trying to persuade teens to “take a break.”
Adam Mosseri testified Tuesday on the witness stand in Meta’s social media addiction trial in Oakland that relatively few teens initially opted into “Take a Break,” a well-being feature designed to encourage users to step away from the app after a set amount of scrolling.
“Most people don’t turn it on, but I don’t think we knew that yet because this was still under development,” Mosseri told the jury. “Actually, we found out that a lot of people didn’t turn it on, and we’ve had to make a lot of changes over the last few years in order to have it be…
