Wednesday is the first time Mark Zuckerberg has ever had to answer questions under oath to a jury — not a Senate subcommittee where the questioning gets split between 20 senators who each have five minutes and a re-election ad to cut. A jury’s job is specifically to evaluate whether someone is telling the truth. That’s a fundamentally different pressure than anything he’s faced before, and it comes at a moment when the internal documents already in evidence make his stated position — that Meta is a responsible steward of young users — genuinely hard to defend.
Watch for three things specifically:
