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Trial attorney at law firm Covington & Burling who serves as lead counsel for Meta in state attorneys general litigation over child and teen safety.
California's AG says the child-safety case is about civil penalties and restitution, not damages. The exposure sits between $200 billion and $1.4 trillion, plus an order to strip features.
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Twenty-nine state attorneys general are litigating default data collection and age assurance in federal court, after two adverse outcomes against Meta. Age checks are now a liability line item.
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A former engineering director testified that Instagram ran a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to under-13 users and graded staff on engagement. Twenty-five more state trials follow.
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Arturo Bejar's sworn testimony in Oakland turns "we didn't know" into a documentary question, and puts every executive's internal warning record on the exhibit list.
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Arturo Bejar testified in Oakland that Meta's internal culture made wellbeing features practically impossible to ship. That turns a four-state consumer case into an argument about how product orgs run.
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