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Zuckerberg defends encryption, CSAM efforts in New Mexico social media trial

By Mike Swift ( March 5, 2026, 00:12 GMT | Insight) -- Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platforms' CEO, provided pre-recorded video testimony to a jury in New Mexico on Wednesday as the state approached the end of its case in a trial alleging Meta failed to keep young users safe on its social media services. While Zuckerberg faced some of the same questions he answered in live testimony in a parallel trial in Los Angeles in recent weeks — on topics such as cosmetic beauty filters and Meta's efforts to increase the amount of time people spent on its services — he also faced new areas of questioning in the New Mexico trial, particularly about his decision in 2019 to build Meta services around private end-to-end encryption.A New Mexico jury watched Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggle to answer questions Wednesday about whether his testimony to Congress about the addictive qualities of Facebook and Instagram was truthful and whether his platform design decisions put young users at risk....

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