‘The young ones are the best ones’: the Meta documents now in front of an Oakland judge

Internal Meta documents, including a 2016 email prioritizing “teen time spent” and a 2021 survey showing 27% of 13-15-year-olds witnessed bullying and 21% experienced negative social comparison, were submitted as evidence in a federal trial over consumer-protection and COPPA violations. States allege the company deliberately favored profit over safety, while Meta argues the research does not prove a causal link between adolescent use and harm and points to recent safety tools such as Teen Accounts.