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

<figure> <img alt="Photo illustration of a gavel about to hit the Meta logo." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/STKS487_ANTITRUST_2__STK043_META_B.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/880850/social-media-lawsuits-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok">over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health</a>. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document showing that the team behind <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24246423/instagram-teen-account-private-restrictive">launching Instagram's Teen Accounts in 2024</a> put in an order for baseball caps that simply said "a/c priv."</p> <img src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/meta-ac-priv-hats.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,12.409778462955,100,75.180443074089" alt="grayscale picture of a baseball cap with a/c priv across the front" title="grayscale picture of a baseball cap with a/c priv across the front" data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: 4:22-md-03047, document 3509-4 "> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The lawyers suing Meta <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65407433/in-re-social-media-adolescent-addictionpersonal-injury-products-liability/?filed_after=&amp;filed_before=&amp;entry_gte=&amp;entry_lte=&amp;order_by=desc#entry-3509">argue</a> the Project Nido (an internal name for the Teen Accounts team) swag is part of "culture of privilege abuse at Meta" aimed at keeping the re …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000370/meta-instagram-attorney-client-privilege-hats">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>