“'We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,' Facebook researchers wrote in an internal 2019 presentation. Still, a year after that research was shared within the company, Facebook began studying ways to entice more preteens to use its platforms."

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents #greed #profit
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"In 2021, Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower, revealed that the company had produced studies showing it was aware of the harmful social effects of its platforms, particularly on children. Among the revelations from the Facebook Files was internal research showing that its algorithms had promoted eating disorders and self-harm to impressionable young users."

~ Caleb Ecarma

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents
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https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/zuckerbergs-extreme-makeover-backfires

"This is the pattern that connects the addiction case to everything else Zuckerberg has done. It is not negligence. Negligence implies you did not know. What the trial documents describe is something more deliberate: a company that knew, weighed the cost of knowing against the revenue of ignoring, and chose revenue. Every. Single. Time!"

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #addiction #children #adolescents #greed #profit
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" [...] certains #adolescents pourraient éprouver des difficultés à saisir la sensibilité de la vie humaine, les conduisant ainsi à entretenir un rapport abstrait avec la réalité. "[...] beaucoup d'adolescents maintenant de cette génération-là ont été biberonnés aux téléphones, aux écrans. Et le problème, c'est qu'un écran ne renvoie pas d'émotion", continue l'avocate."

#year2026 #education #parents #enfants #telephone #socialmedia #cerveau #psy