The judge is using Hemphill’s testimony to work through some remaining questions he has in how to think about reaching a verdict in this case. It’s too early to say what this means for his thinking, but his questions indicate that some of Meta’s arguments are at least spinning his wheels. He asks, for example, if users’ feeds are increasingly made up of posts from accounts users aren’t connected to (i.e. algorithmically-recommended influencer posts), then can time spent on the Instagram feed or stories really be used as a proxy for users’ wanting to see more posts from their friends?