"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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"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

“'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
/4

"What do [the techbros] all want? The answer is simple: to be free of the pesky meddling of regulators and legislators. They want to stop federal and state government regulation of the tech industry in general and artificial intelligence in particular. While most of the money will go to Republicans, AI-friendly Democrats will benefit as well."

~ Paul Waldman

#techbros #SiliconValley #taxes #regulation #AI
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/big-tech-is-coming-for-the-midterms