Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in a Los Angeles trial over allegations that Instagram’s design contributed to harm among minors, including claims that internal research revealed addictive features and mental-health risks for teens. The case reflects growing national concern about how social media platforms affect children. In Kentucky, lawmakers have responded with a bill (HB 227) that would strengthen age-verification requirements, limit certain addictive features for minors, and expand parental oversight of their children’s accounts. The goal is to protect children from real harm, not to silence speech as some critics contend. The constitution allows special treatment of minors in order to protect them. In this case, from Facebook and Instagram’s exploitative algorithms that cause real harm to healthy development of children.