Meta is about to face a reckoning, of the kind that could dramatically change Instagram and Facebook, and could even threaten their existence. In one sense, it has been a long time coming; in another, it seemed like it might never happen at all.
The reckoning comes in the form of a new court case, beginning today in California, during which Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will testify. They will answer a charge that has long been made against them: that the product they make have damaged the wellbeing of the young people who use them.
