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Juries must navigate diverging views of Meta emerging in US social media trials

By Madeline Hughes, Maria Dinzeo, Mike Swift and Xu Yuan ( February 27, 2026, 00:01 GMT | Comment) -- Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico will have to parse two very different views of Meta Platforms that they have heard during the first three weeks of parallel social media trials. Is the culture of “move fast and break things” from Meta Platforms' early days now an extinct relic within a mature company that values its users, as described by senior executives like Mark Zuckerberg? Or, as former Meta workers have testified in both trials, does that culture and its disregard for users still lie at the heart of Meta’s aggressive and reckless culture a decade and a half later?Facebook’s upstart “move fast and break things” ethos took on new meaning as the renamed Meta Platforms bulked up into a social media powerhouse attempting to crush competition by innovating at breakneck speed, jurors in New Mexico and Los Angeles heard from former employees in recent days....

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