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Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety engineer, testified that executives were aware of harm to children but did little to act on it
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Meta $META whistleblower Arturo Béjar testified before a federal jury on Tuesday that the company operated under a "don't ask, don't tell" philosophy toward child safety, painting a picture of leadership that received repeated warnings about harm to young users and largely ignored them. Béjar is set to continue his testimony on Wednesday.
Béjar, a former Meta safety engineer, testified that internal studies documented children encountering harmful material — including recommendations surfacing content from sexual predators and graphic violent images — at elevated rates, and that he brought those findings to Facebook and Instagram executives on multiple occasions without seeing meaningful action. He said those conversations produced little meaningful change.
