Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures

Lawyers suing Meta over alleged harms to teens say the company has applied attorney-client privilege too broadly to keep evidence from public view. A newly unsealed document shows the Instagram Teen Accounts team ordered baseball caps reading “a/c priv.,” which plaintiffs cite as evidence of a privilege abuse culture.

The dispute highlights how legal privilege can become a flashpoint in platform accountability cases, especially when child safety decisions are involved. If courts limit Meta’s privilege claims, more internal communications could surface and shape broader scrutiny of youth safety practices across social platforms.