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(CNN) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

New Orleans, Louisiana native Vince Vance, a member of the band Vince Vance & the Valiants, has ignited a $20 million lawsuit against superstar Mariah Carey, claiming copyright infringement related to her iconic 1994 Christmas song, All I Want For Christmas Is You. The lawsuit, initially filed in the summer of 2022 in Louisiana, is now being moved to California, where the legal battle is set to continue.

Meta’s top executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent years ignoring warnings about harms on platforms it owns such as Instagram, a company whistleblower told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.

A former Meta employee told a Senate panel Tuesday that the company’s top executives dismissed warnings about teens on Instagram facing unwanted sexual advances and widespread bullying. The allegations from Arturo Béjar, a former Facebook engineer who later returned to the company as a consultant, renewed a push for a bipartisan child online safety bill…

Another Meta whistleblower has testified before Congress regarding teen safety issues on the likes of Instagram. He told a Senate subcommitee that "we cannot trust them with our children."

Mariah Carey is facing another Christmas song lawsuit, a choreographer wins a copyright ruling and more music law news in this week's Legal Beat.

Former Facebook employee Arturo Bejar told senators Tuesday that his Big Tech bosses knew social media was putting children in harm's way but did not act to stop dangers, including sexual advances and bullying.