Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg buys Co Waterford castle

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is the new owner of Strancally Castle in Co Waterford.

Meta’s international headquarters in Dublin and Zuckerberg has had his eye on an Irish property for some time.

'If Mark makes something a priority, mountains move in months,' says former Meta Platforms engineering director Arturo Bejar

A former engineering director at Meta Platforms testified on Wednesday that ​CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.

Mark Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies at trial  Reuters

Wendy Sheehan Donnell, editor-in-chief of PCMag, joins CBS News to discuss the latest in the tech world as a former Meta engineer takes the stand in the company's landmark federal trial for allegedly causing children to become addicted to its products.

Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety researcher who has become one of its biggest critics, told jurors in California federal court that Zuckerberg did little to address the harmful effects of Facebook and Instagram despite having near-unchecked power as the company’s CEO.

A coalition of US states has accused Meta of designing Instagram and Facebook to hook young users.

A coalition of 29 states have begun their federal trial against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, accusing the company behind Instagram and Facebook of knowingly building addictive products that harmed young users.

Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California