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Ex-Meta engineer says Instagram ignored rule on kids under 13

Ex-Meta engineer says Instagram ignored rule on kids under 13

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August 20th, 2026

Ex-Meta engineer says Instagram ignored rule on kids under 13

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A former Meta engineering director testified Wednesday at a major trial.

์ „ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ์ด์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์žฌํŒ์—์„œ ์ฆ์–ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said Instagram used a "don't ask, don't tell" approach with children under 13.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์ด 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์—๊ฒŒ "๋ฌป์ง€๋„ ๋งํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š”" ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Arturo Bรฉjar said Meta cared more about profits than safety.

์•„๋ฅดํˆฌ๋กœ ๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ์ด์ต์„ ๋” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์ผ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The company focused on how often and how long people used its products.

๊ทธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ, ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This happened even if it hurt their mental well-being.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ํ•ด์น˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"If you step away from the product, they are not going to make any money," he said.

"์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฉ€์–ด์ง€๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The trial is in federal court in Oakland, California.

์žฌํŒ์€ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์˜คํด๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ฒ•์›์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It puts Meta against California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey.

์ด ์žฌํŒ์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฅผ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„, ์ฝœ๋กœ๋ผ๋„, ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์™€ ๋งž์„œ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These four states are among 29 that sued the tech company in 2023.

์ด ๋„ค ์ฃผ๋Š” 2023๋…„์— ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์†Œํ•œ 29๊ฐœ ์ฃผ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They sued over child safety and privacy.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์•ˆ์ „๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๊ณ ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit says Meta knowingly designed features that addict children.

์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ์ค‘๋…์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It also says Meta collected data on kids under 13 without parental consent.

๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋ชจ ๋™์˜ ์—†์ด 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์•„์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta denies these claims.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๋ถ€์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Bรฉjar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015.

๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” 2009๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2015๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์—์„œ ์ผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He returned as a contractor from 2019 to 2021.

๊ทธ๋Š” 2019๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2021๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said employee reviews and pay were mostly tied to user numbers.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง์› ํ‰๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ˆ˜์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They were also tied to time spent on products.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋ณด๋‚ธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"In that context, safety was an afterthought," he said.

"๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He also said he found "tens of thousands" of kids under 13 on Instagram.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์—์„œ 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ "์ˆ˜๋งŒ ๋ช…" ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said it was "common knowledge" at the company.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ "์ƒ์‹"์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Bรฉjar described features made for adults.

๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said they are "inherently unsafe for teenagers."

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์ด "์‹ญ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These features include video autoplay and popularity counters.

์ด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์—๋Š” ๋™์˜์ƒ ์ž๋™ ์žฌ์ƒ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said a safety tool called "Take a Break" was "designed to fail."

๊ทธ๋Š” "ํ…Œ์ดํฌ ์–ด ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ดํฌ"๋ผ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ "์‹คํŒจํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This tool started in 2021.

์ด ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” 2021๋…„์— ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Users must turn it on, and they can dismiss it easily.

์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ์ผœ์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"A safety tool has to be on by default," he said.

"์•ˆ์ „ ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ์ผœ์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The states want changes to user experiences.

์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They also want financial damages that could include billions of dollars.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ์ด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์ „์  ๋ฐฐ์ƒ์„ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

August 20th, 2026

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