Meta Wants Zuckerberg’s Old ‘Hot-Or-Not’ Site Out Of LA Trial

January 14, 2026

Meta’s attorney Wednesday urged a California judge overseeing bellwether trials over claims social media harms young users’ mental health to ban mention of the attractiveness-rating website Mark Zuckerberg created at Harvard, saying the plaintiffs want female jurors to see Zuckerberg as “a bad guy” and Facebook as “born in sin.”