--- title: "Instagram CEO testifies about teen safety feature usage in Meta trial" description: "Most outlets reported that Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified in a trial, acknowledging that few teenagers used the 'Take a Break' safety feature before it became default. 24 News HD added that Mosseri had promoted the tool without disclosing its low adoption rate in early testing. Aaj News included a brief reference to the trial’s focus on whether Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, though this framing was not present in other excerpts." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/4766-instagram-head-mosseri-says-few-teenagers-knew-of-safety site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Instagram CEO testifies about teen safety feature usage in Meta trial technology · latest filing 26 Aug 2026, 11:49 AM PKT · 26 Aug 2026 · 4 articles from 4 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 4 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets reported that Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified in a trial, acknowledging that few teenagers used the 'Take a Break' safety feature before it became default. 24 News HD added that Mosseri had promoted the tool without disclosing its low adoption rate in early testing. Aaj News included a brief reference to the trial’s focus on whether Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, though this framing was not present in other excerpts. ## Same story from 4 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **The News International** — [Meta trial: Instagram CEO says few teens used 'Take a Break' safety feature](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1413652-meta-trial-instagram-ceo-says-few-teens-used-take-a-break-safety-feature) · 26 Aug 2026, 11:49 AM PKT > Meta trial: Instagram CEO says few teens used ‘Take a Break’ safety featureInstagram CEO Adam Mosseri for the first time since the beginning of Meta trial vs 29 US states made the appearance in the court and countered the US prosecutors’ allegations regarding the company’s... - **Aaj News (English)** — [Instagram head Mosseri says few teenagers knew of safety feature](https://english.aaj.tv/news/330469501/instagram-head-mosseri-says-few-teenagers-knew-of-safety-feature) · 26 Aug 2026, 11:18 AM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing > The top executive at Instagram said ​few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default, at a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram ‌and Facebook to addict children. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by US states suing Meta that Instagram stalled by not making the “Take a Break” feature the default set... - **24 News HD** — [Instagram chief admits touting teen safety tool while omitting it was barely used](https://www.24newshd.tv/26-Aug-2026/instagram-chief-admits-touting-teen-safety-tool-omitting-barely-used) · 26 Aug 2026, 9:51 AM PKT · 74% identical wording to the newest filing > Adam Mosseri, who oversees Instagram at Meta, admitted in a California court on Tuesday that he touted newly launched safety tools for teens without disclosing low adoption rates from early testing several years ago. - **Dunya News** — [Instagram head Mosseri, at children's addiction trial, says few teenagers knew of safety feature](https://dunyanews.tv/en/Technology/969747-instagram-head-mosseri-at-childrens-addiction-trial-says-few-teenag) · 26 Aug 2026, 6:45 AM PKT · 65% identical wording to the newest filing > Under questioning from Jason Slothouber, an attorney for Colorado, Mosseri acknowledged that the percentage of teenagers using Take a Break was in low-single digits before Instagram made it default. 4 articles from 4 outlets, 26 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.