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www.theripcurrent.comThe thing to understand about today’s testimony is that Zuckerberg wasn’t just defending Instagram — he was road-testing an ideological posture. (Symbolized in part by an early moment when his entourage walked in wearing the camera-laden Meta Ray-Ban glasses and got chewed out by the judge for it.)
The “we wouldn’t engineer something bad for users because bad experiences drive users away” argument is one Zuckerberg has made before, and it’s going to be part of Meta’s defense for all 1,600 cases that follow this one. It’s also, as I note in the video, nonsense on its face — the entire history of addictive consumer products proves you only need something to be barely good enough to generate compulsive use. The jury will decide whether he’s credible, and that’s genuinely unpredictable.
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