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Meta says it works for child safety, but critics say this social media company does not do enough.

Meta says it works for child safety, but critics say this social media company does not do enough.

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August 21st, 2026

Meta says it works for child safety, but critics say this social media company does not do enough.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

Meta is trying to protect itself in court.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ•์ •์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

People say Meta's platforms make kids addicted.

์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ์ค‘๋…๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A trial is happening in a federal court in California.

์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ฒ•์›์—์„œ ์žฌํŒ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Four states ask for billions of dollars in damages.

4๊ฐœ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์†ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์ƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They also ask to change how the apps work.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์•ฑ ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta's lawyer Paul Schmidt gave an opening statement.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ํด ์Šˆ๋ฏธํŠธ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ง‰ ์ง„์ˆ ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said the company takes kids' mental health problems seriously.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋™ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Critics say Meta's safety measures do not work.

๋น„ํŒ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Mark Burkman is the head of a social media safety group.

๋งˆํฌ ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋จผ์€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ์ „๋ฌด ์ด์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said Meta did not make safety tools because of worry.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ ค ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said the reason was public pressure.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ์••๋ ฅ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He added, "There was a lack of will to really act."

๊ทธ๋Š” "์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta made many features to stop bullying and aggressive content.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ๊ดด๋กญํž˜๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์  ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These include a feature that blocks aggressive comments.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

There is also a feature that warns before you post harmful content.

์œ ํ•ด ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

There is also a feature that stops adults from starting private chats with teens.

์„ฑ์ธ์ด 10๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ ์ฑ„ํŒ…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The company also adds warnings to search results about suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders.

ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž์‚ด, ์žํ•ด, ์„ญ์‹ ์žฅ์•  ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ถ™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In 2024, it made 'teen accounts.'

2024๋…„์—๋Š” '์‹ญ๋Œ€ ๊ณ„์ •'์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But a report came out in September 2025.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ 2025๋…„ 9์›” ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A whistleblower, Arturo Bejar, and online safety groups made the report.

๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ณ ๋ฐœ์ž ์•„๋ฅดํˆฌ๋กœ ๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด์™€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์•ˆ์ „ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The report says Meta's teen accounts lack real protection.

๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ๊ณ„์ •์— ์‹ค์ œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The report checked 47 of 53 youth safety features.

๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” 53๊ฐœ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„ ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ค‘ 47๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It says 60% of them do not work as advertised.

๊ทธ์ค‘ 60%๊ฐ€ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋œ ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta said the results are "misleading" and "dangerously speculative."

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ "์˜คํ•ด์˜ ์†Œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ " "์œ„ํ—˜ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ถ”์ธก์ "์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The researchers point out some features.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

There are endless scrolling, casino-style refresh, and computer suggestions.

๋ฌดํ•œ ์Šคํฌ๋กค, ์นด์ง€๋…ธ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ณ ์นจ, ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

These features use the weaknesses of teens with growing brains.

์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ์ค‘์ธ ๋‡Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์˜ ์•ฝ์ ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Cornell researcher Ashley Shea said Meta took action on problem content and cyberbullying.

์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์› ์• ์А๋ฆฌ ์…ฐ์ด๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์™€ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์—๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But she said efforts to fix addictive design were not enough.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ค‘๋…์  ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Former Meta worker Behar said in his testimony that time tools were 'designed to fail.'

์ „ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์ง์› ๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ์ฆ์–ธ์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ "์‹คํŒจํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Berkman said social media companies keep kids longer to make more money.

๋ฒ„ํฌ๋จผ์€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋ˆ์„ ๋” ๋ฒŒ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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