In May, the usual cosy complacency of the annual shareholders’ meeting of Meta, the world’s most profitable social media company, was abruptly shattered.
Tammy Rodriguez told the owners of the online empire which includes Facebook and Instagram that, for two years, her daughter Selena, 11, had ‘struggled with an Instagram addiction so severe that she would become physically violent when her phone was taken away’.
Ms Rodriguez, from Connecticut, went on: ‘Through Instagram’s dangerously defective design, Selena was contacted by paedophiles and groomed to send pornographic videos to adult predators.’
After being abused elsewhere on the platform by bullies who encouraged her to
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