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Former Meta worker says Instagram said 'don't ask, don't tell' about kids under 13

Former Meta worker says Instagram said 'don't ask, don't tell' about kids under 13

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August 20th, 2026

Former Meta worker says Instagram said 'don't ask, don't tell' about kids under 13

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A former Meta engineering director spoke in court on Wednesday.

์ „ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ์— ๋ฒ•์ •์—์„œ ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

This is a big trial.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ํฐ ์žฌํŒ์ด์—์š”.

He said Instagram did not ask about children under 13.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์ด 13์‚ด ์•„๋ž˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌป์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

He said the company did not tell about them either.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

His name is Arturo Bรฉjar.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์•„๋ฅดํˆฌ๋กœ ๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด์˜ˆ์š”.

He said Meta cared more about money than safety.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ˆ์„ ๋” ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์ผ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

Meta looked at how often people used its products.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ ์ผ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ดค์–ด์š”.

It looked at how long people used them.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ผ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ดค์–ด์š”.

That could hurt people's mental health.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ํ•ด์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”, "์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๋– ๋‚˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ชป ๋ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”."

The trial is in a court in Oakland, California.

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

Meta fights against four states.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ๋„ค ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฃผ์™€ ์‹ธ์›๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They are California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„, ์ฝœ๋กœ๋ผ๋„, ์ผ„ํ„ฐํ‚ค, ๋‰ด์ €์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These states are part of a bigger group.

์ด ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

29 states sued Meta in 2023.

29๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ 2023๋…„์— ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They sued about child safety and privacy.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์•„์ด์˜ ์•ˆ์ „๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณ ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit says Meta made features that addict children.

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

It says Meta took data from kids under 13.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์•„์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The parents did not say yes.

๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์€ ์˜ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta says this is not true.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Bรฉjar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015.

๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” 2009๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2015๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์—์„œ ์ผํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

He came back as a contractor from 2019 to 2021.

๊ทธ๋Š” 2019๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2021๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์–ด์š”.

He said worker reviews and pay were about user numbers.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง์› ํ‰๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ˆ˜์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

They were about time on products.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

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

๊ทธ๋Š” "๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

He found many kids under 13 on Instagram.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์—์„œ 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ฐพ์•˜์–ด์š”.

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

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ "์ƒ์‹"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.

Bรฉjar talked about features for adults.

๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ์–ด๋ฅธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said they are "inherently unsafe for teenagers."

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

One feature plays videos by itself.

ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋ฅผ ์žฌ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Another shows popularity counts.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์ˆซ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹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 ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It started in 2021.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 2021๋…„์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Users must turn it on.

์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ผœ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They can close it easily.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ซ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

The states want changes to user experiences.

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

They want money.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ˆ์„ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The money could be billions of dollars.

๊ทธ ๋ˆ์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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